Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assimilation. What made Eastern Jewry so powerful and creative was not its theoretical adherence to Jewish religion and Jewish culture but the fact that it had implemented the Talmud in its daily life. Such reality of ideas can now be provided to Diaspora Jewry only by Israel. Rabbis may preach the theory of the chosen people and believe in it, but the Jewish member of an American golf club does not believe in it. If Jewish people in the Diaspora cannot find a new source of pride and self-respect, they will collapse psychologically. That is where Israel comes...
...fully rehabilitated as Bishop of Budapest from the false charges of currency-law violations on which the Communists had jailed him in 1948. The six years of forced "retirement" after his release, when he supported his wife and four children by knitting, ended last October, and being free to preach the Gospel again "was like being given a cup of cold water when you are dying of thirst." The congregations who listened to him had changed...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Serivec, filed the initial complaint against Steyskal in February. At that time he said that Steyskal's psychotic condition led him to believe that he has been "called upon" to preach...
Farnsworth said Steyskal's psychotic condition led the ex-Divinity student to believe he had been '"called upon" to preach a new philosophical doctrine. Only when his illness led him to pick on one person did Steyskal become "too dangerous to remain at large," Farnsworth said...
...became provincial Chief Minister. Though a Moslem, he lined up with Gandhi, Nehru and other Indian leaders in the struggle for Indian independence. In 1946, when bitter Hindu-Moslem rivalry burst into bloody street fighting in Calcutta, Suhrawardy joined Mahatma Gandhi in perilous trips through the riot areas to preach and dramatize Hindu-Moslem good will, won a reputation as a courageous moderate...