Word: nai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cities all over Israel last week looked like the setting for a horror movie. In B'nai Brak, near Tel Aviv, 20,000 demonstrators in somber black coats and black hats paraded with banners proclaiming: "Don't cut us up." Posters inside synagogues in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa explained how to prevent hospital attendants from spiriting away the dead: "Stay beside the body every moment." Splashed in white paint across the road near Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center was the warning: "Barbaric autopsies must stop...
...MICHAEL NAI-KIANG...
...whether the time has not come to abandon demonstrations altogether-in Randolph's words, to "shift from the streets to the conference room." Many suspect that Negro protest marches may have lost the effectiveness that they undoubtedly once had and, indeed, may only foment white hostility. B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League last week reported that in 1966 Ku Klux Klan membership has increased by 10,000, mostly in the North and the Midwest, to a nationwide total of 29,500, and concluded that irban riots and the "black-power" threat had lent credibility...
...Negro slaves as a carefree round of play, song and dance but did not mention slave uprisings or the Underground Railroad to freedom. Researchers at Tufts University last month completed a study of 24 elementary school social studies books, found that many are "tinged with racism." A B'nai B'rith study of 24 high school social studies texts disclosed that half of them did not even mention the 1954 Supreme Court school decision, half did not deal with the Negro after 1876, and only three contained pictures of Negroes and whites together...
...matches or common meetings. In Madison, Wis., for example, the Knights and the Shriners co-sponsored a charity bazaar. In Tacoma, Wash., Columbians and Shriners gathered for what one ecumenical enthusiast called "a real bash." And in Hartford, Conn., the Knights have joined with the Masons and B'nai B'rith to form a brotherhood committee rep resenting a combined membership of 100,000. Says Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt, national head of the Catholic organization: "It's high time for the dissipation of any recriminations, disaffections or petty jealousies that may have formed a barrier...