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...never seen. His sister drops out of sight and becomes a fashion model who plays cozy with the Germans while looking for a chance to make her escape. Michel, the boy, lives with his mother and grandmother, and is subjected to playground and schoolroom humiliations because he is a Jew. His mother, trying to remain inconspicuous, changes the family name and shuttles from one apartment to another. But there is no way to avoid the pogrom except to flee the country. She sends Michel ahead, joins him later with her mother, and the three try to cross the border...
...Ball, or idiomatically-according to Drach-as Others Call the Tune) demands our sympathy with all the sanctimony of someone collecting door to door for a favorite charity. Drach grabs at the heartstrings with harpy's fingers. "Mama," says handsome little Michel, moist-eyed, "what's a Jew?" When the story threatens to go pallid, Drach drums up suspense. The episode of escape across the border could have come out of some prison-camp melodrama: snarling dogs, relentless Nazis armed with machine guns, and desperate scrambles through thick woods, open fields and barbed wire...
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, longtime ecumenical envoy between Jews and Christians, praised some aspects of the guidelines as "constructive," but took grave exception to other parts. Tanenbaum said that "no self-respecting Jew" could live with passages that "imply a religious 'second-class' status" for Judaism. What especially grieved Tanenbaum and other Jewish critics was the guidelines' silence on Jewish historic and spiritual ties to the land of Israel. Any definition of contemporary Judaism that does not consider "the inextricable bonds of God, People, Torah and Promised Land," wrote Tanenbaum, "risks distortion of the essential nature...
...Bible's reliability and developed their own creeds to reinforce its teachings, their insistence that each individual read the Bible for himself set the stage for the rise of radical new ideas that they would have abhorred. In the 17th century the Dutch Philosopher Baruch ("Benedict") Spinoza, an excommunicated Jew, used a method that would be widely emulated by rationalist critics during the Enlightenment: he treated the Bible as a human rather than divine work and thus subject to investigation of its books according to date, authorship, composition and setting...
...important that one prevent the Palestinian question from degeneration into an issue of the Jews as a race. After all, Palestinian Muslims and Christians are Semites, like the Jews. Palestinian sympathizers must realize that their adversary is not the Jew, but the anti-Semite. It is the anti-Semite who distorts a political issue relating to the nature of a state, with racial prejudice relating to the nature of a people...