Word: zionism
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...this point Comet described the role of Israel as the embodiment of the Jewish peoplehood, the central point of the world Jewish community. And Zionism is the active and personal identification of the individual with Israel. Calling the American Council for Judaism (the only anti-Israel American Jewish group) the "Birch Society of American Jewry," he said that in America today most Jews feel mildly pro-Israel, although their involvement is not active or personal. This pro-Israel philosophy is not Zionism, the director of the youth department of the AZC stated...
...entire frame of mind in which Jews outside Israel condescend to help Israelis financially is wrong, in Comet's opinion, for the essence of Zionism is the unity and totality of the people. Therefore Jews in and out of Israel must work as partners, not as older and younger brothers, and the state must be the product of the people as a whole. This concept transcends the idea of a political state, and since it has not yet been realized Zionism was not made useless in 1948, he said...
...dusty, academic prose. Prose aside, I think this piece is the best of the lot. Leifer rightly ranks Gordon with Buber and Rosenzweig as the most influential of this century's unorthodox European Jews, and he insists persuasively that Gordon is not so much the famed ideologue of Zionism's "religion of labor," as a theologian who fused strains of European romanticism into a new definition of Judaism. Certainly Gordon had a romantic sense of the limits of rationality, and a romantic belief in the necessity for personal experience as the source of religion. It is also easy...
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...
...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...