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Three times each day for the last 2,000 years, pious Jews standing in prayer have repeated these words. When Zionism made the "ingathering" a present political reality, the sound of the trumpets was often mixed with the sound of discord in Judaism. A major, though usually muffled conflict is taking place between the Jews of the U.S., who have supported the new state to the tune of over $100 million a year, and the Jews of Israel. Last week the conflict was audible in Jerusalem...
...leader of Zionism outside Israel fought back. He is Nahum Goldmann. 63, president of the World Zionist Organization and second only to Ben-Gurion in prestige among the world's Jews. Like B.-G.. he is noted for a percussion-cap temper and for scholarship (he reads 15 books a week, mostly on philosophy, astronomy, history and religious mysticism). Though Goldmann agrees that eventually all Jews should migrate to fsrael, he advocates a go-slow policy and feels that U.S. Jews deserve more recognition for their help (he even suggested that an observer from the World Zionist Organization...
...American Council for Judaism is to be congratulated on its stand against Zionism. I am a Christian and respect Jews who place religion before Zionism, or Israel...
Soil & Soul Zionism was sparked largely by oldtime European social democrats who relegated religion to second or even no place at all. In Israel, Orthodox believers and a secularist government still live in uneasy truce. But among U.S. Jews, this division has been largely ignored. The majority of U.S. Jews accepted Zionism so enthusiastically, mixing its political aims with their faith's ritualized nostalgia for the lost homeland, that most Orthodox rabbis and lay religious leaders have made a place for themselves in Zionism. They usually did so in one of two organizations: the 100,000-member Mizrachi Organization...
Booby Traps in Egypt. And although Nasser's Cairo editorialists attacked the plan as anti-Arab (they had not yet caught up with the fact that the plan is free and voluntary), Nasser himself awaited the arrival of the promised U.S. mission. "It is colonialism and Zionism that have been the cause of the strife, and not Communism," said one Egyptian, indicating the booby traps of outlook that lay ahead for the new U.S. policy. "Communism is outlawed in Egypt." From India, Jawaharlal Nehru chimed in with the comment that the U.S. attempt to send military...