Word: mapam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religion = Submission? First-generation Zionists refused to look on the Bible as anything but a history of the Jewish people-a group of the left-wing Mapam movement even bowdlerized the Bible of any reference to God and tried unsuccessfully to promote its use on collective farms. But recently even the most determined agnostics began to feel that this spiritual decontamination policy had gone too far. Young people were contemptuously ignorant of all Jewish tradition and looked down on everything that happened before the turn of the century as belonging to a "submissive people." Explains Headmaster Zebulun Tuchman of Jerusalem...
...party). B-G cried "heresy." Never, said he, could his democratic, planned-economy socialists unite with such exploiters. Privately, B-G had another concern. He feared that a swing to the right might push his idealistic, youthful Mapainiks to the left and into the arms of the uncompromisingly Marxist Mapam Party...
...last month's Slansky trial in Prague, with its accent on antiSemitism, the Communists unwittingly did B-G a favor. The trial discredited the party-line Mapam, and rid B-G of any fears of desertions in that direction. He hurried into conference with the General Zionists...
...Israel, the leading coalition party, Mapai, declared the "Jews were a scapegoat to cover difficulties within the country." Meanwhile, the pro-Russian, Communist and Mapam parties who together poll about 11 percent of the votes, were "shocked and confused...
...Communist Rude Pravo ominously referred to Israel as "a base of aggression against the peace camp and the enslaved Arab nations." Israel prepared to protest, both in Prague through its ambassador there, and in the U.N. Even Israel's Al Hamishmar, newspaper of the slavishly pro-Cominform Mapam Party, suddenly disillusioned, called the accusations against Oren "fantastic and absurd," an attempt to smear "a persecuted people...