Jews in the Middle East

In January of 1947, Jewish agitation in the region of Palestine was referred to as "terrorism." Those involves in actions against the British were referred to as "Jewish extremists." Newsweek reported that tensions were increasing between the British and the Jewish people of the area. The magazine notes that the British soldiers in the area saw themselves as individuals and not as instruments of british policy, while the Jewish agitators clearly did think of them as instruments of British policy. When a British soldier was killed, his fellows were embittered against the Jewish terrorists who had caused the death. The author goes out of his way to note that the feelings of the British are not anti-Semitic because the Arabs they support are also Semites. The Jews who are fighting the British and the Arabs are said to be part of a

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g article published in September of 1947 examines the forces binding Jewish people together as based on statements by Rabbi Milton Steinberg of New York's Park Avenue Synagogue. The tone of the article is that it is an attempt to explain Jewish beliefs to Christians and to a degree to indicate how Jews accept Jesus in their tradition. This article appears in Newsweek's religion section and offers a good assessment of the meaning of certain Jewish books, concepts, doctrines, and attitudes. Rabbi Steinberg is described as a Conservative Jew who is impartial and who "looks equally to the right and left of modern Israel" in determining the meaning of various doctrines. Jesus is accepted by Jews, according to Steinberg, as a "gifted and exalted teacher" and not as a moral prophet or as the Messiah, and this is the key difference between Judaism as described here and Christianity. The importance of the Torah is emphasized. The tone of the article is that the readership of the magazine is largely Christian and that these concepts are now to be explained so that the reader will understand them and will have a greater appreciation of the approaching religious days of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Rabbi Steinberg had written a sm
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Approximate Word count = 1295
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)

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