Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, a Jewish religious school has opened for the avowed purpose of eliminating Zionist and Israeli influences from the lives of Jewish children in the U.S. The School for Judaism (enrollment: 115) is the first full-scale school to be run by the American Council for Judaism, an organization of U.S. Jews who hold that the loyalty urged on all Jews by the State of Israel is debasing Judaism from a universal world religion into a "nationalist faith" based on "the primacy of the Jewish people...
...Rosenwald, onetime board chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Co. Almost all of its members belong to Reform congregations, and Executive Director Elmer Berger, 44, is a Reform rabbi who left his synagogue in Flint, Mich, to take the job. Some of the earliest Reform rabbis were explicitly anti-Zionist, and to Council members, the rising popularity of "Israelism" in the U.S. seemed the very thing the rabbis had protested...
Quick to voice shock over the President's implication that Ike condoned an anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic immigration policy (see above) was one of U.S. Jewry's leaders, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland. Former president of the Zionist Organization of America, Dr. Silver pointedly called on Eisenhower in New York, then issued a statement...
...Deputy Prime Minister (since last month) of Israel, former Finance Minister, and one of the chief architects of the hand-to-mouth Israeli economic policy; of a heart attack during a vacation trip; in Genoa. Russian-born, he migrated to Palestine in 1923, after playing an active part in Zionist affairs in Russia and Czechoslovakia. In 1937 he negotiated the first international loan made to Zionism-a ?2,000,000 grant from Lloyds Bank of London...
...Jews sent to Auschwitz, only a handful survived, and Cohen asks himself relentlessly, "Why did I survive?" The answer, he believes, lies largely in his psychological preparation for the ordeal. He had an active, personal philosophy of life. A theoretical Zionist who had put the comforts of Holland above the rigors of pioneering in Palestine, he blamed himself: "I hadn't been enough of a 'hero' to go to Palestine." Much the same, he adds, was true for the political foes of Naziism who were prisoners: "They could understand why they were in camp." Finally, Cohen knew...