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...murder of the Sikhs is yet another tragic example of bloodshed motivated by religious "fervor." Terms like Sikh, Hindu, Jew, Christian and Muslim ring hollow when they are used to sanctify acts of violence. The greatest evil lies not in what religion does to men but in what men do in the name of religion...
...Harvard Hiliel Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold said yesterday that Kollek, who is not an Orthodox Jew, is "not breaking any [religious] law" because Israeli Jews only observe the first day of the holiday, a celebration of God's gift of the Torah...
...American Jew, I am offended by the patronizing behavior of both Gary Hart and Walter Mondale concerning the location of the U.S. embassy in Israel. Each is trying to prove that he is a better friend to Israel. Hart and Mondale have the mistaken notion that Jews are interested only in this one issue...
Jessie, a New York Jew who fought through the civil rights wars with her husband, wants to sell. Not sell out, just abandon a pose of high-minded poverty that is not accomplishing anything, and move to a decent house in an integrated neighborhood. Carll won't budge. Then his sister and brother-in-law, affluent segregationists from Birmingham, are killed in a car accident. Their two children, mannerly young racists, move in with Carll and Jessie. More space is needed, and Carll acquiesces sulkily when Jessie finds a larger house in a middle-class neighborhood...
...Friend, Stalin's daughter tells similar tales of disappearing family friends, and her father often made a show of mourning those he had ordered killed. Svetlana too was forbidden to pursue her chosen career, in this case, literary scholarship, and was denied her first lover, a Jew. Though both daughters ultimately escaped from their palatial prisons, they remain damaged women, their reminiscences suffused with the anguish of unrequited love. Most pitifully, Antoinette has dedicated her lamentable life story "with loving remembrance" of Sam Giancana. -By Patricia Blake