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...STUDENTS: "Zionism and the Nationality Status of American Jews" will be discussed by Milton Golden of the American Council for Judaism at 8 p.m. at Phillips Brooks House...
...practice their religion in peace: "While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched." But Tunisian Jews are trapped in the cold war between Israel and the Arab states. Bourguiba's government has disbanded even Jewish religious organizations on the ground that they promote Zionism, and Jews fear that other Arab countries could force Tunisia to impose restrictions upon them...
Singer describes the split of the Jewish community over two great issues, Communism and Zionism. The old religious enthusiasm was channeled into these new causes, further alienating the Jews from Polish society...
...between Israel and the Arabs. In all fairness to King Hussein's government (which, after all, American Zionists don't seem to mind nearly as much as, say, Nasser's) they may have reasoned that the Palestine refugees, who constitute nearly half the population, are so afraid of "International Zionism" that it would be difficult to protect U.S. Jews from their outbursts. I remember telling a Palestinian friend now in Amman that Jordan might persuade some Americans to modify their anti-Arab views by not refusing visas to Jews who want to enter Jordan, especially since the Wailing Wall...
Since then, the weekly has been less a moralizer (although a sermon still appears in every issue) than an observer. To its pages have flocked Judaism's leading thinkers, among them (in 1896) the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who graciously handed the Chronicle an exclusive beat on his plan for a Jewish state. The Chronicle has had other scoops. It first brought to world attention detailed news of the 1881 pogroms in eastern Europe, and in 1903, despite czarist censorship, smuggled to England the first full accounts (with pictures) of a massacre at Kishenev in which...