Word: greenbergs
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...Jack Greenberg, 57, may be the most experienced civil rights lawyer now practicing in the U.S. He was part of the legal team that won Brown vs. Board of Education, the 1954 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools, and that is only one of many groundbreaking lawsuits he has pressed during a 33-year career with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. For the past 21 of those years, he has been the L.D.F.'s respected director-counsel. But now the New York attorney is under fire in two bitter disputes...
...percentage of minority faculty members (currently two blacks on a full-time faculty of 60). When Harvard Law lost the black who had taught its only course focusing on racial-minority matters, it asked black Lawyer Julius LeVonne Chambers to take over in 1982-83. Chambers asked Greenberg to help. At the same time, the course was rescheduled from its usual slot to an intensive three-week January miniterm. The switch and the choice of a white teacher were "insulting," said Muhammad Kenyatta, head of the 125-member Black Law Students Association. Kenyatta has created a major stir on campus...
Dean James Vorenberg, an old friend of Greenberg's, argues that in the mini-term's ten-hours-a-week format, the course has the same class time and the same two credits as the original. As for the resistance to Greenberg, the dean says, "It works against, not for, shared goals of racial and social justice." Argues Roger Fisher, a faculty member normally sympathetic to minority activists: "It is a mistaken notion to think one must personally be the victim of a particular problem to be able to teach about that problem. One need not be charged...
Ginsberg of the Jewish Theological Semi nary. With this final part, the Writings, consisting of a revision of the previously issued Psalms and a dozen other biblical books, the new Jewish Bible is finally complete. This last section was translated by three U.S.-trained experts: Moshe Greenberg and Jonas Greenfield of He brew University in Israel and Nahum Sarna of Brandeis University. They were assisted by Novelist-Rabbi Chaim Potok (The Chosen), who served as coordinator and literary consultant. The Holy Scriptures will certainly stand as a landmark of Jewish religious scholarship...
...reporters in Israel, trying to get past Israeli border guards into Lebanon was a quasi-military operation. NBC Cameraman Yossi Greenberg tried the direct approach: he raced through an open gate at 80 m.p.h. in a rented car. This prompted a guard to fire over his head with an M-16 automatic rifle to try to scare him back. Later, Greenberg, like other reporters, took advantage of an opening in the 60-mile-long border fence into Lebanon. In the first two days some correspondents slipped past simply by following Israeli armored columns through the gap; the dust churned...