Word: religion
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Part of the reason lies in the historic uniqueness of Judaism, which is not merely a nationality, or a race, or a culture, or a religion, but an inextricable mixture of all these. No other ethnic group has a religion that is so centered, in its very rituals and prayers, on a particular land. Many American Jews have long worried about the "crisis of freedom"; being freer in the U.S. than in any other country in history, with government, the professions and all walks of life open to them, the concern was that Jews would forget their traditions and simply...
American Jews, like any other group, resist easy classification and generalizations. They are fragmented by differences of class and religion, geography and background, education and lifestyle. In many ways, an Orthodox Jew may inhabit a world apart from a Reform Jew; a Jew from Germany may have less in common with a Jew from Eastern Europe than with non-Jews. Yet Jews are united on many issues. Fundamental is education. No other ethnic group sends so many of its sons and daughters to college. While only one-fourth of the general population that is 25 or older has had some...
...just trying to expose them," the Reverend Ennie Cugial, who let 13 picketer, said yesterday. "These men are conveying the impression that freedom of religion exists in Russia. But these men are appointed by the state and an responsible to the state...
Members of the Houses said last night that William A. Graham Jr., assistant professor of Islamic Religion, will be named Winthrop senior tutor, and Marshall R. Pihl Jr. '55, assistant for development in East Asian Studies, may be the next Quincy senior tutor...
...this paradox, but it is not hard to explain. Ross, Shawn and the rest have successfully set up as taste makers over a 50-year period when cultural presumptions have changed horrendously. The New Yorker remains a throwback to Matthew Arnold's Victorian faith in a secular religion of truth and beauty. Eustace Tilley, the magazine's monocled symbol, is clearly an Arnold disciple turned dandy. To be impeccable, graceful and hard-hitting all at the same time is demanding work. So is hanging on to a upper-middle-class audience without seeming frivolous or snobbish...