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...parliamentarian hardly qualifies as high crime and misdemeanor. Germany is different, and for good reason. In his missive, the general praised the deputy for an "excellent speech" and assured him that "the majority of our people shares your thoughts." What had Herr Hohmann said? He'd called the Jews not a nation of victims but a "nation of perpetrators," responsible for millionfold murder in the name of socialism and bolshevism. As "proof" he adduced Karl Marx, the son of converted Jewish parents, who had invented it all; Henry Ford, who detected the bloody Jewish hand behind Soviet communism...
Last year, the American Jewish Committee surveyed the opinions of 1,250 Germans. The news is pretty good: only 17% said they would rather not have a Jew as neighbor; far less welcome were Arabs (43%) and Africans (26%). Do Jews have too much influence? No, said 52%, while 21% had no opinion. Seven out of 10 thought it "exceedingly" or "very important" that Germans learn about the Holocaust. Three-quarters claimed never to have heard "anti-Semitic statements." Though there were no comparative data, my bet is that in Germany the "AQ" (or "anti-Semitism quotient") is no higher...
Writer/director Eitan Gorlin based the film on many of his own experiences as a lapsed orthodox Jew in Israel. Against the odds, he has succeeded in injecting humor and charm into this coming of age story, while nonetheless endowing it with bite and a deep pessimism...
...work behind the scenes, and has consistently kept a low profile. Unlike some of the other oligarchs, he largely remained quiet. Also, Khodorkovsky's father is Jewish, and it's accepted political wisdom in the circles around him that in light of the the prevailing social attitudes, no Jew could win the presidency in Russia. Still, it now emerges that Khodorkovsky was devising a campaign to transform Russia into a parliamentary system, and we're told that may have even imagined himself as premier at some point in the future...
...seemed particularly important at home, where, on various occasions I was mistaken for a Brazilian, an Irishwoman and a Russian. But I do not possess a true cultural identity. I am a mongrel—an improbable amalgam of Midwestern white trash and New York City Jew (which makes for an interesting holiday season, culinarily speaking). Back home, I took my status as a cultural chameleon in stride. In my eastern Massachusetts hometown, where your roots need to extend five generations before you’re counted as native, and where non-natives are branded “wash-ashores?...