Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West Berlin's fighting Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt clearly found the U.S. a fine place to campaign for the chancellorship of West Germany. In a whirlwind week, he talked to a Meet the Press panel, conferred with President Kennedy, addressed the Herzl Institute, named after the founder of Zionism. Wearing a green tie, he stood for hours as a guest of honor, reviewing Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day parade. His message everywhere was of a Germany repentant of its past, proud of its progress, and pledged to "unbreakable friendship with the United States and the Western...
Last week Dr. Joachim Prinz, Rabbi Goldstein's successor as A.J.C. president, took the argument a long step farther. With the establishment of the Israeli state, Zionism has fulfilled its purpose and the Zionist movement itself should "dissolve," declared Prinz. Though he has been a lifelong Zionist himself, Prinz admitted that U.S. Jews and Israel have drifted apart, and that the Zionist movement "has not been able to move the young Jewish men and women of today...
...place of old-fashioned Zionism, Prinz called for a broad new U.S. grouping that would accept "the principle of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism: 'We are a people, one people' "-whether in Israel or the U.S. This principle, said Prinz, "expresses a reality fully consistent with American democracy and our country's pluralistic society. It is a fact of life. It is how our neighbors feel about us. It is how we feel about ourselves...
...minute torrent of poetic and apocalyptic Hebrew. Despite the Zionists' impressive efforts in helping create Israel twelve years ago and the nearly $500 million they-and other Jews abroad -have pumped into it since, Ben-Gurion belabored them as cowards and false friends. He described Zionism as "the scaffolding needed to build the state" and then snapped, "there is no need for it now." Instead of money and good advice, cried Ben-Gurion, the Zionists should provide Israel with trained and competent Jewish immigrants from the West. Because the flow of Jews to Israel has dwindled...
Five hundred Zionist delegates from Western countries were grim. World Zionist President Nahum Goldmann, who has threatened to resign if Ben-Gurion does not stop attacking him, admitted sadly that the goal of Zionism is not fulfilled when "less than one-fifth of the Jewish people is concentrated in its homeland." But Rose Halprin, U.S. acting chairman of the Jewish Agency, said flatly: "Mass immigration from the United States is just not in the cards. We will make schizophrenics of our children if we tell them they are not living in their real homeland, that their homeland is really...