Word: peoplehood
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...Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge agrees, and a large part of his working day and that of the U.S. mission is spent in helping the Vietnamese lay the foundations for their own revolution. "These people," says Lodge, "have always had a strong sense of peoplehood. What we are now trying to give them is a strong sense of nationhood...
...rith, retiring President Label Katz, a New Orleans real estate investor, berated Judaism's contemporary prophets of doom for their hand-wring ing anxiety. The danger of assimilation "persists and grows," he acknowledged, but "it is also profoundly true that Jew ish peoplehood persists and grows. Jew ish life somehow thrives on its own para doxes." Since Judaism is predicated on man's right to be free, said Katz, "I can not concede - no matter what sets of statistics or failures or problems are set before us - that Jewish existence, which has survived and flourished in adversity...
...American tendency to describe three western religious as parallel--Protestant, Catholic, Jew--is incorrect, he asserted. Judaism, inherently means not only a religion but a peoplehood, although this concept has been forgotten in America, and is hard for both the Jew and non-Jew to understand...
...this point Comet described the role of Israel as the embodiment of the Jewish peoplehood, the central point of the world Jewish community. And Zionism is the active and personal identification of the individual with Israel. Calling the American Council for Judaism (the only anti-Israel American Jewish group) the "Birch Society of American Jewry," he said that in America today most Jews feel mildly pro-Israel, although their involvement is not active or personal. This pro-Israel philosophy is not Zionism, the director of the youth department of the AZC stated...
...peoplehood. n. awareness of the underlying unity that makes the individual a part of a people. "tried to weld the groups together on a broad basis of peoplehood rather than theological doctrine...