Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without & Within. Though isolated by the disapproval without, the country showed no signs of deep soul-searchings or critical postmortems. Nobody except the inconsequential Communists had even mildly suggested that the whole invasion might have been a ghastly error for which Israel might be a long time paying...
...carfare hike dawned bright and chilly, and Barcelona's 463 streetcars started on their runs. Not a soul climbed aboard. Subways and bus lines were also nearly empty. Thousands of people who work two jobs to earn enough to live on got up at 5 a.m. to walk to work; their bosses, even at City Hall, were sympathetically tolerant of tardiness. Word had passed that there were to be no noisy gatherings, no overturned streetcars-just the simple protest of walking or hitchhiking...
...Soil & Soul Zionism was sparked largely by oldtime European social democrats who relegated religion to second or even no place at all. In Israel, Orthodox believers and a secularist government still live in uneasy truce. But among U.S. Jews, this division has been largely ignored. The majority of U.S. Jews accepted Zionism so enthusiastically, mixing its political aims with their faith's ritualized nostalgia for the lost homeland, that most Orthodox rabbis and lay religious leaders have made a place for themselves in Zionism. They usually did so in one of two organizations: the 100,000-member Mizrachi Organization...
...A.R.Z.O. was Russian-born Rabbi Isaac Stollman of Detroit's Mishkan Israel Synagogue, former national vice president of Mizrachi. Said Honorary Cochairman, Mordecai Kirshblum: "We represent the religious aspiration of Jewry to see in Israel not only a revival of the soil, but also of the soul...
...Hell. The dreadful possibility remains, though, that one's wish for beatitude may be so weakened by self-indulgence that in the moment of death the soul may "shrink away from the presence of God." If this happens, "we shall have what we have willed to have. We shall have to live forever with the sinful self that we have chosen; and this is called Hell...