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...Counting Noses at The Harvard Crimson" (April), Justin Danilewitz launches an attack on our newspaper, claiming that he was not selected to be editorial chair because he was not the kind of Jew The Crimson was looking for--namely, one willing to turn his back on other Jews. He claims that we are, however, and that while in office we have instituted a "new policy" at The Crimson, "a program designed to promote the most superficial kind of diversity--the diversity of skin color." He alleges that this policy cost him a position as columnist...
...Jewish state is that put forth by Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl a century ago: the normalization of the Jewish people. Herzl's dream of a sovereign Jewish nation was realized some 50 years later in 1948, and today the state of Israel thrives as a Jewish land. In Israel, Jews are not a minority, so no one questions whether there are too many Jewish columnists on a newspaper, for example. In Israel, the Jew is Jewish regardless of his religious beliefs, so whether or not one attends a synagogue is irrelevant to his membership in Jewish civilization. In Israel...
These Hollywood-style celebrations seem meaningless even to East Coast Jews, so it's no wonder Israelis found them difficult to stomach. More than a celebration, they seem to be a cultural imposition of American ideals--of celebrity and ostentatiousness--upon the rough-hewn world of the sabra (native Israeli). Many American Jews like to play down the differences between themselves and Israelis, but the New York intellectual will never be of the same mind as the organic kibbutznik. Philip Roth, this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, makes exactly this point in Operation Shylock, in which...
America, at the moment, offers a higher standard of living, greater economic opportunities and, what is perhaps most important, a physically safe environment for Jews. The American Jew, while enjoying the benefits of and contributing energy to the world's hegemonic nation, is plagued by a divided sense of fate: though America is most certainly his country, a great number of his people are sweating, fighting and dying to establish a secure home for all of the Jewish people--a home in which the Jew does not yet, but may some day, desire or need to live. A safe home...
...Hasidic-Jews! genre is now 0 for 2. Renee Zwelleger plays Sonya, a Hasidic Jew who can't handle her religion's strict more. Constantly red-faced or stuck in a deliriously cheesy monologue, Zwelleger tears into the role trying to make the film somewhat watchable. All her effort is ultimately futile: A Price Above Rubies is not only an example of dull storytelling but also of offensive and exasperating, preachy filmmaking. Sonya wants to discover true, "burning" passion. The filmmakers make it obvious that true love cannot be found in her community--a tenuous, seemingly-offensive position. When Sonya...