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...French Jewish Students. This week began with firebomb attacks on synagogues in the suburbs of Paris and Strasbourg. Similar fire-bombings or attempted arson have occurred in Sweden, Britain and Belgium. Three ethnic Arab students in Paris were attacked by seven alleged members of the Jewish Defense League. (The JDL denied any involvement.) French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie this week responded to the beatings by pleading that neither "our Muslim compatriots" nor French Jews should be targeted as a means of replicating the Gaza conflict in France. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
Halevi looks back on his JDL activities as having been the opportunity to become "at once my father's contemporary and a Yippie." The first connection was with "the danger zone of Jewish history" and the second with "the funhouse of America." In 1972 Halevi protested the Soviet restriction of Jewish emigration by throwing chicken blood at a touring troupe of Ukrainian dancers. He was also part of a group tossed out of Moscow for demonstrating at a visa office...
...eventual decision to become a journalist suggest a more moderate man's need to examine experience in a cooler light. But his sharp skills as a journalist do not always serve him well as a memoirist. The emotional temperature drops steadily as Halevi writes about his disaffection with the JDL, his marriage to a woman with a Mayflower pedigree who converts to Judaism, the birth of his children, the death of his father and, eventually, the Halevi family's immigration to Israel...
Rabbi Sally Finestone, acting Director ofHarvard-Radcliffe Hillel, spoke critically at therally of outside organizations in attendance,including the JDL and Kahane Chai...
...invite the Jewish Defense League.It is the students' rally," Finestone said. At onepoint, signcarrying members of Hillel rushed infront of a local television camera to obscuresigns held by JDL members...