Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come from the same root...
Whether or not Mrs. Eitani is Jewish has blossomed into a nationwide debate. What makes the problem so touchy is that it cuts to the root of Israel's schizophrenia as a modern, secular state whose laws are strongly influenced by a minority of observant Orthodox Jews as their price for remaining in the coalition with the governing Mapai. In 1960 the Interior Ministry, dominated by Orthodox Jews, ru'ed that the Halacha would determine whether an immigrant could enter Israel under the 1950 Law of Return, which makes any Jew automatically eligible for citizenship...
...another quote, from Walter Lippmann, strikes closer to the truth: "Ever since Wilson and Roosevelt, the central Republican leadership has been alienated from the intellectual community, and in the years when it backed McCarthy, it in effect declared war on the intellectual community . . . This alienation is the root of the decline of the Republican Party...
...this is the root, the real measure of the Ripon Society's success will be its ability to end-this alienation
...work of the committee enough? Some church leaders outside the state note that few white ministers have dared to preach on integration. Thus church-building may be a face-saving operation that permits the clerics to avoid confronting the root issue...