Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World Zionist Organization, whose U.S. affiliates have 750,000 members. Under the presidency of New York's Nahum Goldmann, 66, the Zionists consider themselves the main "bridge" between Israel and the Jews of the U.S. as well as other countries. They argue that a Jew can be a citizen of any country, but that he should feel a strong devotion also to Israel, which he should fulfill with financial contributions, sympathy and emotional attachment. The World Zionist Organization would like to speak for all U.S. Jews-but it does not and cannot...
...American Jewish Committee, which is "non-Zionist" but friendly to Israel. It has 28,000 dues-paying members, publishes the well-regarded monthly Commentary, and has as its honorary president Baltimore's Jacob Blaustein, 68. The American Jewish Committee takes an independent position among Jewish factions -and sometimes gets caught in a crossfire...
...complete concert with none of these organizations is Israel's Ben-Gurion. Bred in Czarist Poland, Ben-Gurion cannot understand how any Jew can possibly be happy or productive living outside Israel. Thus believing that a true Zionist must necessarily commit himself to settling in Israel, Ben-Gurion has branded U.S. Zionists as hypocrites, and has fenced for years on the issue with Zionist President Goldmann. Speaking to the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last December, Ben-Gurion threw fresh fuel on the controversy by interjecting a Talmudic passage: "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered...
...rabbis denounced Ben-Gurion's "erroneous" theology; U.S. Zionist and anti-Zionist leaders alike attacked his politics. Ben-Gurion quickly explained that his statement was meant to apply only to practicing Orthodox Jews, who constitute a minority of U.S. Jews. But the damage was done. Off to Israel to pick up the pieces went Ben-Gurion's old friend, the American Jewish Committee's Blaustein. Playing his familiar conciliatory role, Blaustein persuaded Ben-Gurion to reaffirm a joint statement they had issued in 1950. Its key points: Israel may not presume to interfere with the affairs...
...Goldmann knew that the statement did not represent Ben-Gurion's feelings as so often publicly expressed. Last fortnight, Polish-born Nahum Goldmann, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 1945, took up Ben-Gurion's longstanding personal challenge, said he would give up his U.S. citizenship and join Israel's new Liberal Party to fight Ben-Gurion. Israelis figured that he might run for public office in the future. Two Israeli Cabinet members, also disagreeing with the Blaustein-Ben-Gurion declaration, moved to censure Ben-Gurion...