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...whispers that he had Jewish ancestors; he came in a poor third. Mazowiecki is not Jewish, but Walesa made no effort to protest that such an issue had even been raised. To show he is not anti-Semitic, a fairly repentant Walesa last week agreed to sponsor a Holocaust museum memorializing the Nazi killing ground of the old Warsaw Ghetto...
Peninsula lists the Review's total circulation, notes its "longstanding support of Israel" and even specifies how many relatives one Review member lost in the Holocaust...
...history, this encyclopedia has dignity and flair. When it tries to keep up with current events, the book often resembles a hardbound USA Today. An untroubled Donald Trump appears, along with Wayne Gretzky, Jimmy Breslin and Oprah Winfrey. Parapsychology and the occult are given two massively illustrated layouts; the Holocaust merits less than half a page. In the section on American writers, James Baldwin stares out from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough his house is. In the coverage...
...Jews scarred by the memories of the Holocaust, Kahane's slogan "Never Again" was a powerful message. To his discredit, Kahane perverted the reasonable agenda of opposing anti-Semitic violence into a doctrine that justified militance and violence. In the late 1960s, Kahane's Jewish Defense League took up the cause of human rights for Soviet Jews, a noble crusade for a group which was largely ignored at the time. Unfortunately, the League turned to violent tactics such as attempted bombings to achieve its aims...
DIED. Herbert Brodkin, 77, innovative television producer who examined such subjects as Nazism (Holocaust and Skokie), euthanasia, blacklisting and abortion (episodes of The Defenders); in New York City. Brodkin charged that the networks claimed to give viewers what they want, but in failing to give them "anything good," they "have reduced the audience's level of receptivity to a bunch of monkeys asking for the same peanuts...