Word: zionistic
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Disappointed that the world's largest and most vigorous Jewish community-the 5,500,000 U.S. Jews-has sent practically no emigrants to help build the new Zion, Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion stirred a storm when he bluntly told the 25th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem that from the time of Israel's establishment in 1948, "every religious Jew has daily violated the precepts of Judaism by remaining in exile...
...first top-ranking U.S. Jew to settle in Israel. But in the U.S., liberal and conservative rabbis alike condemned Ben-Gurion's theology as "erroneous." The American Jewish Committee declared itself "grieved and shocked" by the suggestion that Jews have an obligation to emigrate to Israel. The anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism said: "Our nationality is American; our religion is Judaism. Our homeland is the U.S., and we reject the concept that all Jews outside Israel are in exile...
...movie of this sort will do little to help the American people understand the real situation in the Middle East, and those Americans of the Jewish faith who reject the Zionist idea will find that not only the Middle East and the Arab position have been distorted, but also Judaism itself...
...getting touchy in his old age. He's a lonely man with no real personal friends. Maybe a short rest will do him good." Prime Minister Ben-Gurion had enough zeal left last week to take on another opponent. Rising to address the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, he poured out a 100-minute torrent of poetic and apocalyptic Hebrew. Despite the Zionists' impressive efforts in helping create Israel twelve years ago and the nearly $500 million they-and other Jews abroad -have pumped into it since, Ben-Gurion belabored them as cowards and false friends...
Five hundred Zionist delegates from Western countries were grim. World Zionist President Nahum Goldmann, who has threatened to resign if Ben-Gurion does not stop attacking him, admitted sadly that the goal of Zionism is not fulfilled when "less than one-fifth of the Jewish people is concentrated in its homeland." But Rose Halprin, U.S. acting chairman of the Jewish Agency, said flatly: "Mass immigration from the United States is just not in the cards. We will make schizophrenics of our children if we tell them they are not living in their real homeland, that their homeland is really...