Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wall behind the stage in the Tel Aviv theater was decorated with huge Israeli flags, framing pictures of two Zionist heroes, Vladimir Jabotinsky and Theodor Herzl. Oddly, there was no photograph of Menachem Begin. Nor was the Prime Minister present as 950 members of the Herut Party gathered last week to elect his successor in a boisterous, eight-hour-long session. If the attention of an anxious nation had been riveted on Begin while he debated whether to resign, Israelis seemed determined, once that decision was made, to move into the new and uncertain post-Begin era without looking back...
...before Moynihan hired him last November, Breindel's resume was impeccably top drawer: Exeter prep school education, editorial chairman of the daily Crimson as an undergraduate at Harvard, graduate of Harvard Law School, sometime student at the London School of Economics. He has a book in progress about Zionist history and has written an impressive sheaf of neoconservative pieces on politics and foreign affairs for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Republic and Commentary. "He's very much a real intellectual," says one of his editors. "His passion is the world of ideas...
...stripped from his uniform. One shocked witness was Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist covering the trial for a Vienna newspaper. Herzl embarked on a train of thought that would result in the writing of Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), a book that led to the founding of the modern Zionist movement and, ultimately, the state of Israel...
...particular, the organizers of the event were upset by the article by Judith Bernstein, and by the style of conduct adopted by Ms. Bernstein in its preparation. One might begin with questioning the "logic" of identifying the newsworthy aspect as having been the demonstration by Zionist students rather than the event which provoked it. And without quibbling over numerous minor inaccuracies in the article, let me say simply that in my conversation with Ms. Bernstein several days prior to Mr. Abdul Rahman's talk I had painstakingly listed for her the eight student organizations co-sponsoring the event, and provided...
...peace is not within our reach, moving toward it, learning to talk rather than scream, certainly is. Rona Shapiro '84 Member, H-R Zionist Alliance...