Word: talmud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only dormant. Throughout the thaw, a steady trickle of anti-Semitic propaganda reminded Russian Jews that official policy had only moderated, not changed. Such traditional Jewish practices as circumcision, bar mitzvah, and the baking of unleavened bread drew sneering allusions in the Soviet press to "fanatics of the Talmud," who practice "cruelty rituals." In August Kiev's humorous monthly Perets (Pepper) lumped Jews, Nazis and Konrad Adenauer together in a grotesque front-page cartoon that placed the swastika inside the Star of David. Then came a harsher reminder. To jail last month, for sentences ranging from three to twelve...
...spur for the leave-taking was the Lavon affair (TIME, Nov. 7), a five-year-old governmental scandal that has grown as complex and abstruse as a learned commentary on the Talmud. Polish-born Pinhas Lavon was Israel's Defense Minister until 1955, when he was forced from office for what has been mysteriously described as a "disastrous affair'' in the previous year.- Lavon loudly denied responsibility, insisted he had been framed by two of Ben-Gurion's proteges: Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, Director General of the Defense Ministry...
...death, a slow and imperceptible decline into the abyss of assimilation!" Ben-Gurion, whose devotion to Judaism as a religion is something short of wholehearted, did not scruple to quote Jewish scripture for his own purposes. Every day spent abroad, he pointed out, violates the precept of the Talmud that says, "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have...
...talk at the Divinity School Forum touched on an array of topics last night, but although he sandwiched quotes from the Talmud and the Buddha with clinical observations, Erich Fromm always returned to one basic theme: all psychiatric problems are moral problems...
...Davis studied the Talmud and came back a year later. He sums it up: "I wanted to become part of a 5,000-year history and hold onto something not just material, which would give me that inner strength to turn the other cheek. Jews have become strong over their thousands of years of oppression, and I wanted to become part of that strength. As a Negro, I felt emotionally tied to Judaism. Certainly the background of my people and their history cannot be compared to that of Judaism, but the same oppression and obstacles thrown in our way were...