Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...existence of the state of Israel, says Toynbee, has profoundly changed the nature of Judaism. Before 1945, Judaism was a half political, half religious entity; part of the religion was the hope and prayer to return to the Holy Land. But Israel, by making it possible for all Jews in the Western world to migrate there-expenses paid, if necessary-has placed those who do not migrate in the position of opting for 100% political allegiance to the countries in which they live...
...Harmony, Ind., was built as a memorial to the Harmonists, a German Separatist sect that assured its own extinction by faithfully practicing celibacy. But to Johnson it suggests the stave churches of Norway and the stupa forms of India. Without its name, the Nuclear Reactor Building in Israel could be a medieval cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems to change its shape with the movement of the sun. In the Four Seasons Restaurant-as hedonistic as a Caesar's court-light ripples up and down aluminum loop window shades, plays upon the slender rods...
Although Assistant Director Israel A. Horovitz emphasized that "this is strictly a private theatre, meant only to give their young playwrights a chance to see their work in front of an audience," he stressed that Summer School students may receive invitation tickets by going quietly to the theatre at 24 Palmer St. Tickets should be picked up the evening before a performance...
...John the Baptist, to dedicate a $31 million building. U.S. Ambassador Ogden R. Reid, who has been learning the language, gave a slow, well-enunciated greeting in Hebrew. And everyone agreed, on the centenary of Henrietta Szold's birth, that medicine has come a long way in Israel...
...time the state of Israel was born in 1948, the infant death rate, which had been 140 per 1,000 in 1918, was down to a Western-world normal of 29. Trachoma among schoolchildren was down from 34% to 4.3%, ringworm from...