Word: mitzvah
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...country in the world places a higher spiritual and patriotic value on immigration than Israel. In Jewish religious law there is no greater mitzvah (commandment) than to return to the land of Zion. Since the birth of the Jewish state in 1948, 1.6 million Jews have settled in the country, and Jerusalem encourages others to come by offering generous financial and moral support. Last week, speaking in New York to the annual convention of the Labor Zionist Alliance, former Premier Golda Meir asked for the aliyah (immigration) of 2 million Jews to Israel in the next two years...
...full tariffs on many industrial imports from the Common Market until 1977. After that, tariffs will be gradually reduced, but some duties may last until 1989, by which time the Israeli economy will supposedly be able to withstand the full rigors of international competition-a sort of commercial bar mitzvah. Israel has been allowed favorable treatment in the early stages of the pact because it now imports far more from the EEC than it exports. In 1974 it bought $2 billion worth of Common Market goods, such as automobiles and heavy machinery, nearly three times as much as it sold...
...latest Kissinger story making the rounds in Washington: with 400 capital notables on hand for his son's bar mitzvah, Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz was pleased. While some guests congratulated Son Michael, 13, at the party at the ambassador's residence, others surrounded the Secretary of State. "Did you have a bar mitzvah of your own?" Kissinger was asked. "Yes, I studied hard for it," he replied. "Was it similar?" the guests pursued. "No, it was different," answered Kissinger. "For one thing, the German Foreign Minister didn't come to my bar mitzvah." "They always think...
JUST BEFORE his first appearance on stage, Lenny Bruce threw up three times. A few minutes later the stand-in master of ceremonies at the Victory Club in Brooklyn heard the strains of his intro music and found himself standing in his one-button, bar-mitzvah blue suit, holding a microphone...
...boxes containing scriptures similar to those in the mezuzah and wound on with leather thongs-are a sign that the wearer subjugates his heart and mind to God. Wrapping on the tefillin for the first time is the high point of the Jewish religious initiation for males, the bar mitzvah ceremony. When an uninitiated Jewish male drops by a Mitzvah Mobile, the Lubavitchers show him how to wrap the tefillin, pray with him, and send him on his way belatedly bar mitzvahed...