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Buried by His Own Mud In the midst of a close re-election campaign against Paul Wellstone, Minnesota Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz issued a letter reminding the state's Jewish community that he was "the better Jew." He , attacked Wellstone for having "no connection" with Judaism and stated that his children "were brought up as non-Jews." At the polls, voters retired the "Rabbi of the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers of 1990 | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Mike dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player -- but hey, it was "Mischief Night," the eve before Halloween, and the 14-year-old had another sport on his mind: Jew baiting. Using a can of shaving cream, he sprayed the words F--- YOU JEW BAGEL, without the dash, on the garage of Eugene Markovitz, 67, the oldest and most prominent rabbi in Clifton, N. J. Joining the fun were Mike's pals Johnny (whose best friend, he says, is Jewish) and Peter (whose grandfather rescued Holocaust Jews in Holland). I HATE JEWS, scrawled one boy. GO BACK TO YOUR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clifton, New Jersey Warlocks, Witches and Swastikas | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...Crimson of October 11 made me sad. It contained an opinion piece headlined "Arab Activists Massacred the Facts." As a Jew I read it with interest. (Most American Jews are always searching for something which justifies Israel's actions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israeli Oppression Enslaves Jews | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Wolff spears both social exculsivity and Princetonian pretension with his witty new novel, The Final Club. Wolff charts the voyage of Nathaniel Clay--a Seattle boy who is half-Jew, half WASP--from the deceptively placid waters of the 1950s, through the stormy seas of the 1960s, and finally to a shipwreck at the end of the 1970s...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Ceremonies of Exclusivity, Timeless Literary Questions | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

Clay is not wholly anything--he is half Jewish, half Gentile. His WASP grandparents reject him completely, never having forgiven his father for marrying a Jew. He is the odd third of an otherwise perfect Preferential. His two roommates, Booth Tarkington Griggs and Pownall Hamm, are purebred patricians who breeze into the most exclusive club...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Ceremonies of Exclusivity, Timeless Literary Questions | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

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