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...Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, the director of the Hillel Society at the University of California at Los Angeles, described the proposed law change as "contrary to the humanistic, open and tolerant Israel that we love." Natan Sharansky, famous Soviet ex-dissident, said, "Principles were being auctioned off with dizzying dispatch. It was not a pretty sight...
Transport Minister Chaim Corfu appeared to suggest Israel bombed a ferry that was to carry Arab deportees from a Cyprus port to Israel. If the Palestine Liberation Organization obtained another vessel, he said, "Its fate will be the same...
American Jewish leaders, normally reluctant to criticize Israeli government policy in times of crisis, last week issued a barrage of condemnations. Reform Rabbi Alexander Schindler, President of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, sent a scathing letter to Israeli President Chaim Herzog, calling the beatings an "offense to the Jewish spirit" that "violates every principle of human decency and betrays the Zionist dream." Declared Bert Gold, executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee: "Using brute force evokes other times and places when it was used against us." Said Balfour Brickner, senior rabbi of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue...
...flat and square." Mercy is more strained for the Kapos, who were in charge of barracks and work details and whose own lives frequently depended on the ferocity they displayed toward their fellow prisoners. Throughout the Reich, the Nazi system spawned flunkies of almost opera-bouffe dimensions. The megalomaniacal Chaim Rumkowski, a failed Jewish industrialist who, probably with Nazi support, set himself up as the president of the Lodz ghetto, had the power to print his own currency and stamps bearing his portrait. In the end Rumkowski came to believe he was the savior of his people, who nevertheless were...
...strategy has angered other industrial countries. West Germany and Japan, in particular, fear that their economies will be crippled by the escalation of their currencies against the dollar. Finally last week Reagan seemed determined to shore up the dollar once again. As he posed for photographs with Israeli President Chaim Herzog, the President was asked about the currency's future direction. "I don't look for a further decline," he said. "We're not doing anything to bring it down." Those words immediately acted like a parachute on the dollar's drop. "We weren't sure the President knew what...