Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcome TIME'S high-level handling of the important story of the Ben-Gurion-Goldmann ideological dispute. You have helped to illuminate Zionism as an issue of concern to men of all faiths. However, Ben-Gurion's and Goldmann's "prestige' may be high among Zionists, but your reference to it as high among "Jews" is dubious. Most Jews are indifferent or hostile to Zionism. We reject the "Jewish" nationalism of Zionism and hold that Judaism is a religious faith of universal values...
Three times each day for the last 2,000 years, pious Jews standing in prayer have repeated these words. When Zionism made the "ingathering" a present political reality, the sound of the trumpets was often mixed with the sound of discord in Judaism. A major, though usually muffled conflict is taking place between the Jews of the U.S., who have supported the new state to the tune of over $100 million a year, and the Jews of Israel. Last week the conflict was audible in Jerusalem...
...leader of Zionism outside Israel fought back. He is Nahum Goldmann. 63, president of the World Zionist Organization and second only to Ben-Gurion in prestige among the world's Jews. Like B.-G.. he is noted for a percussion-cap temper and for scholarship (he reads 15 books a week, mostly on philosophy, astronomy, history and religious mysticism). Though Goldmann agrees that eventually all Jews should migrate to fsrael, he advocates a go-slow policy and feels that U.S. Jews deserve more recognition for their help (he even suggested that an observer from the World Zionist Organization...
Last week Ben-Gurion deepened the gulf with a speech before a Jerusalem meeting convened to discuss the ideology of Zionism. Some 70 writers and thinkers from all over the world gasped audibly when Ben-Gurion announced: "The difference between Goldmann and me is that he is a Zionist and I am not. There seems to be general agreement that a Jew can live in America, speak and read English and bring up his children in American culture and still call himself a Zionist. If that is Zionism, I want no part...
...American Council for Judaism is to be congratulated on its stand against Zionism. I am a Christian and respect Jews who place religion before Zionism, or Israel...