Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buses Will Run." Hebrew will help hold the new nation together. The world outside Israel (including many U.S. Zionists) expected the main cement of the new state to be the Jewish religion, preserved through centuries of vicissitudes. In Israel this seems to have lost its validity. When the Promised Land was the unpaid balance of a divine I.O.U., when they lived among more or less hostile Gentiles, religion was a far more vital force than it is today in Israel. The Jew is supposed to wear a hat; in Tel Aviv, young men risk sunstroke to go hatless. Waiters...
Victims of History. If not religion, what will hold Israel together? Today fear of the Arabs performs for the Israelis the same unifying function that Gentile persecution and discrimination performed during the Dispersion. The Arabs, as Ben-Gurion noted, are 40 to one Israeli. But the Jewish superiority over the Arabs is not just a figment of Israeli imagination; it is a fact. Israel has probably the highest percentage of skilled labor and executive experience of any people in the world; by comparison, the Arabs are near the bottom of the scale...
...their long and brilliant history the Jews have displayed great genius for religion, ethics, husbandry, commerce, literature, music and art. The one skill they have never shown as a people is a talent for politics. That is the talent they need now. Perhaps the Israeli...
...Marcus Bach of the University of Iowa School of Religion calls himself a "religious sleuth." For 15 years (partly financed by a Rockefeller fellowship) he has been investigating the state of Protestantism in the U.S. Published this week is the result: an autobiographical Report to Protestants (Bobbs-Merrill, $3), which is well-timed for this month's big conference of churches at Amsterdam...
Thank you for printing, in your admirable Religion section, the New Statesman and Nation's attack on us. It is a choice example of the odd logic of so many of the assailants of our "irrelevant" doctrine and our "decaying" church. "Why should anybody go to church," asks Editor Kingsley Martin [TIME, July 19], "and listen to the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody...