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POLITICS HENDRIK HERTZBERG...
DIED. Arthur Hertzberg, 84, contrarian Jewish scholar and civil rights activist; near Westwood, N.J. After Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, he caused a stir by calling for a Palestinian state. Yet when the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a liberal Roman Catholic priest and peace activist, attacked Israel for "domestic repression," Hertzberg rebuked him for "old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism." Determined to entwine Judaism with social causes, he called the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum the "national cathedral of American Jewry's Jewishness" and suggested Jews expand their focus. Instead of offering "platitudes," he said, "a rabbi should be where the real...
Vociferous argumentation on both sides of this issue is nothing alien to this campus. For example, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky—who believes in filling the West Bank with Jewish settlements on Palestinian land—was invited to speak at Hillel in September. Arthur Hertzberg, a prominent rabbi and critic of Ariel Sharon, described Sharansky as wanting to “drive the Arabs into cantons...
...United States must “shove peace down Israel’s throat,” but the Bush administration is “too busy fishing for money from rich Jewish Republicans, Hertzberg said...
...Hertzberg “is one of the last surviving authorities on Zionism and therefore commands respect,” said Josh Suskewicz ’05, president of Harvard Students for Israel, who worked for Hertzberg as research assistant last summer...