Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reformers later rejected the Zionist notion that the only home for the Jew is Israel, arguing that Zion is anywhere a Jew prays. But because of the need of a national home for Hitler's victims, Reform Jews came to accept Israel. Says Rabbi William Rosenthall, the World Union's executive director...
...rabbi's troubles were double. He had come at the invitation of the American Council for Judaism, a small (20,000 members), anti-Zionist organization that is bitterly resented by most other U.S. Jewish groups. His purpose was to deliver a message to American Jews that most of them found hard to take at face value: that Russian Jews, although suffering from the restrictions of "an atheistic culture," are no worse off than the members of other faiths. "Anti-Semitism," Levin maintained, "is strongly prohibited in the Soviet Union. There have been no pogroms...
...religious services, though from all accounts, these are severely limited, and he conceded a "shortage" of Jewish articles of worship. Many U.S. Jewish observers are convinced that their Russian brothers are suffering persecution, or at least discrimination. Underlying this conviction is bitterness about Soviet Russia's anti-Zionist foreign policy and refusal to allow Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel. The very fact that the Moscow rabbi was in the U.S. trying to "establish contact" with U.S. Jewry suggests that some of the charges of anti-Semitism were beginning to bother the Russians. As he held court...
...Sabbath. The son of Polish immigrants who went to Jerusalem when he was a child, Goren was a Talmudic prodigy who became Palestine's youngest ordained rabbi at the age of 16, a year later published a scholarly study of the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. He joined the Zionist underground in 1936, was a sniper in Jerusalem during the Palestine war. and became chief rabbi of the Israeli army when it was formed in 1948. Throughout the fighting, Goren also played an active role in a rabbinical committee assigned to study the modernization of Halakah. The committee...
...campaigning on the West Coast, had restated his position that the U.S. had a firm commitment to Israel's security. In New York, Arab Spokesman M. T. Mehdi talked darkly of the "frustration of many Arabs with American politicians who have sold the Arab people of Palestine to the Zionist Jewish voters." That suggested a motive, but District Attorney Evelle Younger and State Attorney General Thomas Lynch wanted to avoid any such discussion until the trial. Thus they were aghast, and said so, when Mayor Yorty went before a news conference to divulge what he described as the contents...