Word: nai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calls, all but 19 demanding that Mayor John Lindsay call off a scheduled dinner for the King. Candidates in this week's primary elections quickly denounced the hawk-beaked desert monarch. Nearly every major Jewish organization pronounced itself outraged. Protested Dore Schary, national chairman of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League: "We believe it unseemly for New Yorkers to say that he is welcome. The city's tribute should be reserved for those who come to us in friendship...
Ending Hostility. Strongest advocates of Jewish-Christian cooperation are Jewish service agencies in the U.S., such as B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Committee, which discreetly but effectively lobbied in Rome for passage of Vatican II's condemnation of antiSemitism. Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the A.J.C., for example, believes that neither side is ready yet to talk theology, but sees no reason for Jews to fear that the dialogue with Christianity will involve a disguised attempt at conversion. On the contrary, he argues, it represents a "chance to change a relationship which has lasted...
Columnist Harry Golden once jokingly suggested that Jewish leaders gather in Jerusalem to issue a declaration exonerating Christians from their crimes against Judaism. More seriously, Rabbi Arthur Gilbert of B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League feels that Jews must indeed be prepared to recognize that neither all Christians nor Christianity itself is responsible for the anti-Semitism of the past. He also warns that a condition of true dialogue is for Christians to forsake their "patronizing attitude" that the Jews are "a fossilized people who now must wander through time awaiting that moment...
...weeks ago, B'nai B'rith's Manhattan-based Anti-Defamation League charged that the Coca-Cola Co., in denying a franchise to a Tel Aviv bottler, was kowtowing to the Arab nations' boycott against foreign firms that do business with Israel. After all, noted the league, Coke has plants in 18 Arab states that might be closed down if the Tel Aviv franchise were granted...
...review of the military history revealed a stunning ignorance of facts. It stated that the allies "have never ventured into areas under heavy Communist influence which comprise the largest part of South Vietnam." This if flatly contradicted by last week's operation in Binh Dinh and Quang Nai provinces, as well as previous operations such as that in the Delta's "Iron Triangle" which was a Communist stronghold since 1950. The editorial stated that "All of our successful operations have been confined to the central plains area, a region settled largely by Catholic refugees from the North and hardly...