Word: zebulun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently even the most determined agnostics began to feel that this spiritual decontamination policy had gone too far. Young people were contemptuously ignorant of all Jewish tradition and looked down on everything that happened before the turn of the century as belonging to a "submissive people." Explains Headmaster Zebulun Tuchman of Jerusalem's largest school, the Rehavia Gymnasium: "Children who reached school age after the creation of Israel had no interest in the Jewish past, in Jewish literature, in Jewish religion." At the Youth Congress in Moscow last summer, Israeli delegates were embarrassed before their fellow Jews...
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