Word: nai
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Right Thing. The discussion then was all about whether or not the film endorsed a violent response to racism, not about the quality of the work. His new movie, Mo' Better Blues, is stirring a less commercially useful controversy, having been denounced by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith for its portrayal of a pair of scuzzy jazz-club owners as anti-Semitic stereotypes...
...program has sparked an uproar because he declines to offer the same discounts to any non-Christians except Jews, whom Jackson said he includes because they believe in God. Even so, David Friedman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, has urged Jackson to drop the program. Says he: "I want him to see there is something wrong in asking customers to declare their religious affiliation and to treat them differently according to that...
That was stunning confirmation of the depth of discontent many American Jews are now expressing openly, among them leaders of the Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism and scores of men and women who have held leadership positions in organizations ranging from B'nai B'rith to Hadassah. Though dissenting views are far from universal, "there is great sadness toward Israel shared by growing numbers of American Jews," observes John Ruskay, vice chancellor of public affairs of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan. "The sadness is that after 40 years and a Holocaust we end up occupying thousands of Palestinians...
Jetliners from Europe roar into Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport almost every day, delivering thousands of Soviet Jews to their new homeland. The immigrants trudge wearily into the terminal, to be met by whirling circles of young people from the Orthodox B'nai Akiva movement who are singing and dancing their welcome. Then, in the coming days, in an exercise they are only too familiar with from life in the Soviet Union, the newcomers form long lines outside the office of the Absorption Ministry. When they reach the heads of the queues, they receive instructions on how to sign...