Word: judah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yemenite Jews, now 45,000 in number, take their name from the corner of Arabia where they were cut off for centuries from the rest of Jewry. In their isolation they were not touched by the edict of famed Rabbi Gershom Ben Judah ("Light of the Exile"), who, around the year 1000, at a synod in Western Germany, banned polygamy for French and German Jews.* The Yemenites clung to the Old Testament rule of David (at least eight wives), Solomon (1,000 wives and concubines) and Herod (nine wives). Poverty has always limited the custom, and limits it sharply today...
Along with Zilliacus, the Labor executive committee expelled 43-year-old Barrister Leslie Judah Solley, member for Thurrock, Essex. Solley had publicly opposed British policy in Greece, voted against participation in the European Recovery Program. Fired from their jobs, though not from the party, were five of the cabinet's parliamentary private secretaries* who had voted against the government's bill to establish Britain's relationship with Ireland. Said one of the purged, ruefully: "If you vote against the government on a 'three line whip' [direct orders from party whips to vote] you are sticking...
...Gandhi was murdered; India's blood bath subsided in shocked dismay and its legislature legally abolished the untouchability which, in life, Gandhi had abominated above all of India's other woes. Under the purposeful hands of David Ben-Gurion, the new state of Israel was born on Judah's ancient soil. Its young armies whipped the Arabs into defeat, rested, and then at year's end renewed the fight against their enemy...
Died. Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, 71, California-born co-founder and longtime president of famed Hebrew University (Jerusalem), a leading Zionist and No. 1 champion of the binational state plan for Jews and Arabs in Palestine; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Last week many influential Israelis were demanding civil marriage for Israel, which now operates under a rule taken over from the British, who decided that only rabbis could perform Jewish marriages in Palestine. Israel's Minister of Religion, aged (72), Judah L. Fishman, set out the counter-demands of the religious groups: enforcement of the Sabbath, adoption of biblical law as the basis for Israel's legal system, and government observance of dietary laws. Said he: "I don't expect to go looking into the cook pots of all the housewives of Israel, but state institutions should...