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...about three in the afternoon, the Russian Jew and I separated--he had to escort his pupils to the same museum which we had just visited...
...last day did I receive the opportunity to converse with a Russian adult. Sitting in front of the busy Hermitage Museum, a man introduced himself to me because, he said, he saw me from a distance and immediately knew that I was a foreigner with Russian descent and a Jew (both true). He, too, was Jewish and he worked as a Russian history and literature teacher at a local high school...
...Excessive entanglement or approval of a particular religion may not be a serious problem in the Rhode Island community, but there are some places in the United States where setting up a creche would be just one more symbol of a community where it is difficult to be a Jew or an atheist. Places where even the government would find something wrong with you for refusing to say a prayer at the beginning of a city council meeting...
...mayor and the 39th President clashed during the 1980 campaign. Carter badly needed a prominent Jew to pull in the Jewish vote, but Koch had his price: a substantial federal takeover of the city's Medicaid payments and a more active pro-Israel position in a hostile United Nations. Carter was forced to concede, and a grudgingly satisfied mayor set off to stump Brooklyn and Miami Beach, telling his aides, "It's amazing what fear will...
Such treatment, unfortunately, was never accorded to Jewish communities living in Arab lands. Mild examples of Moslem discrimination against Jews included legislation forbidding a Jew from riding a horse lest he appear higher than a Moslem and laws mandating that synagogues not be visible from the street and be built lower than other city buildings. Step into the Intercontinental Hotel outside of Jerusalem and see the bathrooms paved with Jewish tombstones from the days of Jordanian occupation...