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...country in the world places a higher spiritual and patriotic value on immigration than Israel. In Jewish religious law there is no greater mitzvah (commandment) than to return to the land of Zion. Since the birth of the Jewish state in 1948, 1.6 million Jews have settled in the country, and Jerusalem encourages others to come by offering generous financial and moral support. Last week, speaking in New York to the annual convention of the Labor Zionist Alliance, former Premier Golda Meir asked for the aliyah (immigration) of 2 million Jews to Israel in the next two years...
Among the 40 signers of the letter are Reverend Peter J. Gomes, minister of Memorial Church, and Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Hillel...
Jung rushed in where Freud feared to tread: into an exotic Zion built on scientific method but furnished by the ages. There was a place in Jung's world for the philosophy of ancient Asia and classical Greece, for the Gnosticism of early Christianity, for medieval alchemy, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, for Romanticism and the occult...
Israelis greeted the resolutions with emotions ranging from mockery to deep anxiety. In several cities of Israel, streets that had been named for the U.N. -which had created the Jewish state in its 1947 partition of Palestine-were retitled "Zionism Street" or "Zion Street." Some young Israelis wore T shirts proclaiming U.N. INTERNATIONAL ZIONISM YEAR, but Premier Yitzhak Rabin denounced the U.N. action as an "offensive aimed at establishing an Arafatist state" on the ruins of Israel...
...then, within the framework of both the spirit and practice of this delicately calibrated model of American pluralism that I reject Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's militant Jewish thrust in the Harvard community. And though I sympathize with Mr. Epstein's low-profile approach to Jewish militancy, I reject it equally...