Word: zionist
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Ashkenazi Jews, the Europeans who dominated the Zionist movement in the 20th century, originally were a tiny community on the Rhine. The Ashkenazim founded modern political Zionism and brought to Israel Western values, education, technology and tastes. The problem lies in the fact that often they look down on Sephardim, and the Sephardim on them, a phenomenon fed by ethnic differences. Sephardim tend to live in small towns, raise large families, and to eat foods that even now reflect their Spanish heritage. Rice, for example, is permitted during Passover. Ashkenazim tend to make their homes in the city...
Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist League (HRZL) yesterday passed out pamphlets entitled "Israel Represents Our Best Interests in the Middle East" in response to leaflets with the heading "Should the Reagan Administration Support Israel?" which a group calling itself the Committee of Concerned Americans (CCA) distributed Monday and Wednesday...
...overwhelming suspicion that the rally organizers had another target in mind. Coming only days after the temporary detention of Dissident Leader Jacek Kuron and other incidents of harassment against Solidarity, the rally seemed to many to be an attempt to discredit the independent trade union with an emotional "Zionist" label...
...Prime Minister's trip to the U.S. had originally been planned as a private visit to New York, to take part in a centennial dinner honoring the late Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky, the fiery Zionist who was Begin's mentor. But after the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations on Palestinian autonomy ground to a halt in midsummer, Carter invited Begin for a side trip to Washington to try to get the talks back on track. At the time, the Administration hoped to set up some time in January a trilateral summit involving Carter, Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
Gary Finder, an associate at the American Zionist Youth Foundation in Boston, organized the public call with-Judith Cohen, program director at the Hillel. The call will be placed on Sunday at 9:00 a.m. at the Hillel Riesman Center in Cambridge...