Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jewry's answer to Ferdinand & Isabella was to declare in 1492 a Jewish boycott of Spain which was still in effect last week. For 443 years Orthodox Jews have eschewed trading with Spain or felt twinges of conscience for doing so. Last week in Warsaw the hoary Boycott of Spain was ended at last for Polish Jews by their Rabbinate...
...other rabbinate followed the forgiving lead of Polish Jewry, for many an Orthodox Jew cherishes the tradition of boycotting Spaniards. In his able We Jews, Journalist George Sokolsky characteristically reports : "England and Holland which used him [the Jew] prospered, while Spain, which excluded him, collapsed economically and its great Empire sank into a Mediterranean memory...
...Government owned institutions are economically preferable, but precisely because the state must look to its own preservation and cannot tolerate disagreement supported by its own funds there remains a valuable place to be filled by the private university. Unless one rigid set of dogma is to be adopted as orthodox, heresies of every description should be permitted and even encouraged. Until all faith in liberal institutions has been destroyed one can believe that, especially in an intelligent university community, pernicious or fantastic doctrines will succumb to the force of logic. Certainly well defended views need not fear attack...
...Laymen liked the swift-moving stage pictures, consistently more effective than those in almost any other opera. Sometimes sheer noise created the excitement but the pace never lagged, even at the end when the convicts' mighty chorus was as conventional as anything to be heard in a Russian Orthodox Church...
...that beauty and comedy and tragedy remain in life, even in the midst of apocalyptic happenings. As the fated people move on past the Urals, the love affair of Raoul Perez, Royalist son of the Paris banker, also moves on to a happy consummation with Leah, daughter of an orthodox rabbi. An old woman dies. Sonia, an infant violinist, insists upon her artistic kinship with Menuhin. Scientists squabble about their laboratory problems. The Passover is celebrated. Mr. Alberg, the Communist, predicts that blood will flow in the Gobi as the brotherhood of man dawns. The bankers meditate upon getting loans...