Download or read book American Christians and the National Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry written by Fred A. Lazin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides the first in-depth examination of the role and influence of American Christians in the advocacy efforts for Soviet Jewry during the 1970s and 1980s. It explores how American Catholics and Protestants engaged with American Jews to campaign for the emigration of Soviet Jews and to end the cultural and religious discrimination against them. The book presents a case study of the National Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry from its inception to its closure in order to better understand the complexities of the politics of interreligious affairs during this period. At the heart of the story is Sister Ann Gillen of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, who directed the Chicago-based task force under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee. The author provides a comprehensive look at task force activities, programs, and relationships, notes its ties to the civil rights movement, and offers in-depth analysis of its participation and role in the global arena. American political, religious, and ethnic leaders play prominent roles in this story, along with the national media, and countless religious and community groups across the United States. The relationship between American Jews and Israel is a factor of fundamental significance as well and plays a critical role in the development of the Task Force. This close-up analysis of the task force is based on extensive archival research and interviews with key players in its history.
Download or read book The Struggle for Religious Survival in the Soviet Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baptizing of America written by Rabbi James Rudin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baptizing of America: Politics, Piety, and the Coming Theocracy exposes the systematic campaign by Christian fundamentalists to co-opt and take over every "room" of American society from the bedroom to the school room, hospital room, operating room, courtroom, work room, reading room and newsroom. This book focuses on the aggressive war currently being led by fundamentalist Christians to "baptize America." It is a battle that will determine whether the United States remains a spiritually vital country but without an officially established religion, or whether it will become "Christianized," a "faith-based nation" in which fundamentalist Christianity will be the sole legal dominant religion throughout the land. The war will decide whether America follows the path of many other nations and becomes a theocracy not unlike Iran and the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Download or read book Let Us Prove Strong written by Marianne Rachel Sanua and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the last 60 years of the American Jewish Committee to commemorate its centennial in 2007
Download or read book Christian Statements and Documents Bearing on Christian Jewish Relations written by Judith Herschcopf Banki and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baptizing of America written by Arnold James Rudin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Religious News Service writer and rabbi's exposé of the systematic campaign by fundamentalists to establish Christianity as an American national religion and convert all factions of non-Christian society identifies aggressive and well-funded activities taking place in the nation's schools, courts, hospitals, and other institutions.
Download or read book A Cold War Exodus written by Shaul Kelner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan–Bush years What do these things have in common? Ingrid Bergman, Passover matzoh, Banana Republic®, the fitness craze, the Philadelphia Flyers, B-grade spy movies, and ten thousand Bar and Bat Mitzvah sermons? Nothing, except that social movement activists enlisted them all into the most effective human rights campaign of the Cold War. The plight of Jews in the USSR was marked by systemic antisemitism, a problem largely ignored by Western policymakers trying to improve relations with the Soviets. In the face of governmental apathy, activists in the United States hatched a bold plan: unite Jewish Americans to demand that Washington exert pressure on Moscow for change. A Cold War Exodus delves into the gripping narrative of how these men and women, through ingenuity and determination, devised mass mobilization tactics during a three-decade-long campaign to liberate Soviet Jews—an endeavor that would ultimately lead to one of the most significant mass emigrations in Jewish history. Drawing from a wealth of archival sources including the travelogues of thousands of American tourists who smuggled aid to Russian Jews, Shaul Kelner offers a compelling tale of activism and its profound impact, revealing how a seemingly disparate array of elements could be woven together to forge a movement and achieve the seemingly impossible. It is a testament to the power of unity, creativity, and the unwavering dedication of those who believe in the cause of human rights.
Download or read book The Trade Reform Act of 1973 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 2012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Finance written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trade Reform Act of 1973 Hearings Before 93 2 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Shanghai Jews written by Kevin Ostoyich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a historical narrative, historiographical reviews, and scholarly analyses by leading scholars throughout the world on the hitherto understudied topic of Shanghai Jewish refugees. Few among the general public know that during the Second World War, approximately 16,000 to 20,000 Jews fled the Nazis, found unexpected refuge in Shanghai, and established a vibrant community there. Though most of them left Shanghai soon after the conclusion of the war in 1945, years of sojourning among the Chinese and surviving under the Japanese occupation generated unique memories about the Second World War, lasting goodwill between the Chinese and Jews, and contested interpretations of this complex past. The volume makes two major contributions to the studies of Shanghai Jewish refugees. First, it reviews the present state of the historiography on this subject and critically assesses the ways in which the history is being researched and commemorated in China. Second, it compiles scholarship produced by renowned scholars, who aim to rescue the history from isolated perspectives and look into the interaction between Jews, Chinese, and Japanese.
Download or read book Legislation Calling for a Move of the U S Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Centuries of Heritage written by Thomas Michael Scott and published by Legacy Books. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family history book of Robert Scott and Eileen McGovern. Covering the families of Scott, Fremont, Bruneau, Gregory, Flanagan, McGovern, and Kelly. Also includes photos and maps.
Download or read book Basket Three Implementation of the Helsinki Accords Religious liberty and minority rights in the Soviet Union Helsinki compliance in Eastern Europe written by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baptizing of America written by Rabbi James Rudin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, at last, are the war plans of America's own religious extremists. The Baptizing of America exposes the systematic campaign by Christian fundamentalists to co-opt and take over every "room" of American society from the bedroom to the school room, hospital room, operating room, courtroom, work room, reading room and newsroom. This book focuses on the aggressive and well-funded war currently being led by fundamentalist Christians to "baptize America." It is a prolonged battle that will determine whether the United States remains a spiritually vital country — but one without an officially established religion — or whether it will become "Christianized," a "faith-based nation" in which fundamentalist Christianity will be the sole legal dominant religion throughout the land. The war will decide whether America follows the path of many other nations and becomes a theocracy, not unlike Iran and the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Download or read book Implementation of the Helsinki Accords written by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Basket Three Implementation of the Helsinki Accords written by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
