Word: zion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STEPHANIE ORFALI Zion...
Venturing forth early last week from Chequers, country residence of Britain's Prime Ministers, Tory Squire Harold Macmillan earnestly read the lesson (Joel 2: 15-16) at the Anglican parish church of Ellesborough. "Blow the trumpet in Zion," he intoned; "call a solemn assembly: gather the people." Barely 36 hours later, after a fast flight to Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Macmillan officially advised Queen Elizabeth that he planned to call a general election...
This challenge was issued by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, Associate Director of the Harvard B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. He was thinking specifically of the mass of "non-committed" undergraduates who call themselves Jews because of Jewish birth, but who identify with neither their Judaic heritage, nor active religion...
This challenge was issued by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, Associate Director of the Harvard B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. He was thinking specifically of the mass of "non-committed" undergraduates who call themselves Jews because of Jewish birth, but who identify with neither their Judaic heritage, nor active religion...
...third chunk of Adams House scholarship is a very readable consideration of factors in the success of Mormonism. Bryce Nelson concludes that Mormon unity, not merely as a sect, but as a people, led to their efflorescence in Utah's Zion and throughout the United States. The analogy with the Jewish people is drawn several times and points of comparison are emphasized. Nelson demonstrates that the Mormons have successfully preserved two identities--the ethnic-religious one of the Latter-day Saints, and the wider one of participation in American culture...