Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Founded by two Zionist groups, the tiny line - named ZIM from a contraction of two Hebrew words meaning merchant marine-ran the British blockade with such doughty ships as the Exodus, the inspiration of the novel by Leon Uris. Today ZIM sails on as a firm worth an estimated $140 million; its six passenger ships and 34 freighters carry 41% of all Israel's imports and 26% of its exports. This year ZIM plans to add another 19 cargo ships, which will make it one of the world's dozen largest lines, comparing respectably with Cunard (whose gross...
...rabbis not to perform mixed marriages, as some Reform rabbis do. (Conservative and Orthodox rabbis insist upon the conversion of the non-Jewish partner, a tactic that often drives couples to a municipal judge or a broad-minded Protestant minister.) At the golden jubilee convention of the Farband-Labor Zionist Order last month, its leaders warned against the new spirit of assimilation in U.S. Jewry, which they said was reflected "in the alarming growth of intermarriages and in a drifting away from Judaism, particularly on the part of Jewish youth...
Israel must abandon its Jekyll and Hyde role in world politics, declared Dr. Elmer Berger, executive vice-president of the American Council for Judaism, a militant anti-zionist organization, last night...
...Language Sales Talk. Rassco (for Rural & Suburban Settlement Co. Ltd.) was originally set up 30 years ago by the World Zionist Organization to lay out and stock farm communities for middle-class German Jewish refugees. But as Israel gradually became agriculturally self-sufficient, Rassco's horizons widened. The company still raises sheep in Samson's Ashkelon, and cattle on the plains of Maresha where Joshua's army marched. But through a string of 52 subsidiaries and affiliates, Rassco is now involved in citrus groves, organic fertilizer, dairies, Bible publishing, diamond polishing, supermarkets, North Atlantic fishing boats, hotels...
Died. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, 70, ardent Zionist, since 1917 leader of The Temple in Cleveland, one of the nation's largest Reformed Jewish congregations, a fifth-generation rabbi who with Rabbi Stephen Wise in 1943 organized the lobby that was instrumental in persuading Congress in 1945 to declare in favor of a Jewish national home, later presented the case for Palestinian partition before the U.N., in 1948 was pleased to see the creation of Israel itself; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...