Word: zionism
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...visiting Christians and seeks to rally friendship for the Jewish state among the tens of millions of Evangelicals around the world. Most of the 30 full-time volunteer staffers, and many contributors to the monthly budget of $15,000, are Charismatics. Virtually all are millenarians, who believe that Zionism is part of God's design for the days preceding the Second Coming of Jesus Christ...
Timerman claims that his life was spared only because high military commanders hoped to conduct a show trial against international Zionism. But if that is all there is to the story, then his title is misleading. For among the thousands of "disappeared" persons who have been tortured and murdered in Argentina, Timerman is one whose name is very well known...
There were three-and-a-half million Jews in Poland once. They shared a 900-year heritage, a richly diverse culture. Some served in Marshal Pilsudski's army, fighting for a free Poland and helping to repel the Red Army after the First World War. Some fervently believed in Zionism: others would die for the socialist Bund: still others thought "Nothing that didn't happen before should happen now." Some were orthodox, some reformed, most were poor, a few wealthy: many clustered in the big cities and universities, some lived in villages, and a few stayed on the farm. Some...
Ashkenazi Jews, the Europeans who dominated the Zionist movement in the 20th century, originally were a tiny community on the Rhine. The Ashkenazim founded modern political Zionism and brought to Israel Western values, education, technology and tastes. The problem lies in the fact that often they look down on Sephardim, and the Sephardim on them, a phenomenon fed by ethnic differences. Sephardim tend to live in small towns, raise large families, and to eat foods that even now reflect their Spanish heritage. Rice, for example, is permitted during Passover. Ashkenazim tend to make their homes in the city...
Lest anyone miss the point, Alternate Delegate Richard Schifter, a Washington attorney, delivered a broadside against the Soviets. Invoking "the lessons of the Hitler era," he charged the Soviets with "thinly veiled antiSemitism" with its attacks on Zionism, and characterized the Soviet Union as a state whose "atheistic doctrine seeks to stamp out all creeds...