Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first response came from Richard Bloom '75, formerly an active member of the militantly Zionist Jewish Defense League. Rothstein, however, claims to be at the opposite end of the political spectrum from Bloom...
...Bloom and Rothstein will take the place of Israelis who have left their places in the kibbutzim to fight...
Jane Fonda represents the film's firmest break with tradition: a strong, defiantly contemporary Nora. Hers is not a thoroughly shaded interpretation -it is a little too direct and aggressive 73151;but it is a great deal more interesting and closer to the mark than Claire Bloom's airy Nora, a stage performance recently translated to film (TIME, June 18). One thing Fonda manages well is the delicate transition behind the closed bedroom door. As in the play, we do not see Nora change, but when Fonda comes out again to confront Torvald and prepare to leave...
...However, Bloom's old friends from the Jewish defense League haven't been very active in supporting the Israeli war effort; most of them prefer to work through the more established channels of Hillel. The JDL is not an official undergraduate organization at Harvard, and although at times it has been very active it is rather loosely organized now. Bloom left the JDL last year because, he says, "I was spending more time on the JDL than on school...
...elderly Jews in Mattapan and Dorchester who were getting attacked on the street just like the kids in the camps were. The JDL has done a lot to inspire the young Jews in America and to get Russia to let the Soviet Jews emigrate." Defending world Jewry is, for Bloom, a very important and very serious business, especially where Israel is involved. Bloom called Israel "the only country in the world faced with total annihilation if they lose...