Word: jews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent weeks another threat to the idealistic vision of Israel has reemerged--the movement to redefine who is a Jew for the purposes of Israeli citizenship. In seeking to disqualify converts to Reform and Conservative Judaism, far right religious groups are asserting the superiority of Orthodox Judaism and the unworthiness of non-Orthodox beliefs...
...mayor for 40 minutes. Koch was polite but distant. He asked about Jackson, and Dukakis responded with the usual boiler plate about disagreeing with Jackson on some issues but treating him with respect. Koch was not pleased. Only a week earlier Koch had, with his grating candor, said any Jew would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson. Just before the end of the discussion, Kitty interrupted. "Ed," she said, "if you want to go with a winner, you go with - this...
...quickly appeared that Labor would be unable to outbid Likud. The morning after the election, Shamir announced his willingness to amend the Law of Return, which grants all Jewish immigrants immediate Israeli citizenship. For years the religious parties have sought to redefine "who is a Jew" by recognizing only those born to a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism by an Orthodox rabbi. The proposal to disregard all other conversions has particularly upset U.S. Jews, most of whom identify themselves with the Conservative and Reform branches of Judaism...
...lest they be arrested for such a crime as holding hands in public. Eventually they are caught and sent to a concentration camp, where Max discovers it is even more dangerous to be branded with the pink triangle that signifies homosexuality than to wear the yellow star of the Jew. In order to adapt and survive, Max must betray Rudy and sacrifice his humanity, though in the second act he gets the chance to redeem himself through his blossoming relationship with Horst (Randall Lipton...
...compound has become Christendom's most lumbering white elephant. Last week an unlikely angel of rescue appeared. He is not a Gospel glad-hander but an Orthodox Jew named Stephen Mernick. The reticent 34-year-old Toronto businessman reportedly underwent intensive religious training and holds rabbinical ordination but has never led a synagogue. Meticulously observant, Mernick attends daily synagogue prayers and declined to visit his South Carolina kingdom last week because it was Simhath Torah, celebrating God's gift...