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...Soon thereafter the delegates to the 39th annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America elected Rabbi Wise their president for the next two years; created a new post, that of chairman of the administrative committee, for Morris Rothenberg, Manhattan lawyer and outgoing Zionist president. Thus did U. S. Zionism compose its differences to present a united front against practical threats to their dream of a Jewish homeland...
That was how some U. S. rabbis felt in 1885, before political Zionism was more than a dream in Jewish hearts. The rabbis were Reformed Jews, in the vanguard of the movement in the U. S. They met in Pittsburgh, drew up a "Platform" as a guide for Reformed Judaism, put their views on Zionism in paragraph No. 5. Further, their Platform rejected old Jewish ideas of bodily resurrection, of Gehenna and Eden. Mosaic and rabbinical laws of diet, priestly purity and dress the Reformed rabbis found incompatible with modern life. They staked their faith on "the indwelling...
...rather than a religion. But Rabbi Philipson declared the time had come to re-examine Reform Jewry's credo, see how it stacked up under modern conditions. And the conference took the first step, after stormy debate and cries of "subterfuge" and "cowardice," by reversing its stand on Zionism, resolving: "We are persuaded that acceptance or rejection of the Zionist program should be left to the determination of individual members...
Tourist traffic in Palestine once consisted mainly of pious pilgrims, Sunday school teachers and lantern-slide lecturers. Today, what with Zionism and Palestine's private little surge of prosperity (TIME, Dec. 10), tourism is also on the upgrade. But if intelligent exploitation has brought a golf course to Galilee and good cocktails to the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, it has not yet produced any change in the conduct of the Holy Land's traditional attractions, Biblical sites. This fact profoundly depressed Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, visiting Palestine on a cruise last month. Last...
...account of a speech on Palestine by Mr. Antonius, an Arab student from the Near East, has been published in The Harvard CRIMSON of March 22. The speaker is reported to have attacked Zionism as well as the British administration of Palestine, allegedly "under the thumb of Zionists...