Word: jewishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army should still be responsible for the security and public order of the West Bank and Gaza. Jews should be free to settle on the West Bank, and should be immune from rulings of the elected Palestinian administrative council. Israel would retain full control over state land, military areas,Jewish settlements and water resources...
Palestinian resentment has been heightened by a series of provocative acts committed by Israeli extremists. In mid-March, two Palestinians were shot and killed by Jewish settlers during a rock-throwing barrage near the town of Hebron. In late April, a group of Jewish women and children occupied a vacant building in Hebron that was once used as a Jewish hospital; their aim, they said, was to take over all buildings in the town that had ever been owned by Jews. After the Israeli Supreme Court ordered that a parcel of confiscated land be returned to Arab control, vandals destroyed...
...conviction of Elghanian caused concern among some Jewish businessmen in Iran, who feared that they too could be charged with contributing money to Israel. But most Jews did not believe that their community, which now numbers about 65,000, was being targeted for abuse. Muslim leaders, including Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, have repeatedly stressed that the rights of religious minorities would be protected. "We are uneasy," conceded a Jewish intellectual in Tehran, "but there is no room for panic." And a Jewish university student noted that former Premier Amir Abbas Hoveida, who was executed last month, was also accused of espionage...
...cancer; in New York City. In 1925 Russian-born Angoff was chosen by Mencken over 61 applicants to assist him at the newborn Mercury. Angoff stayed on for 25 years, becoming, in Mencken's view, "the best managing editor in America." Angoff later published eleven novels about Jewish-American life, as recounted by a fictional alter ego named David Polonsky. In one of them Angoff savages a Mencken-esque "literary dictator of America," portraying him as an intellectual fraud and a loudmouthed vulgarian...
...time is 1944 or, more pertinently, the limbo of time wasted. The heroine, Sally (Trish Hawkins), is 31, and a Wasp whose real creed is to suppress emotion in gentility, a twin sister to Alma Winemiller of Summer and Smoke. The hero, Matt (Judd Hirsch), is a Jewish accountant from St. Louis, a bachelor of 42 and one of life's perennial Gentleman Callers...