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...Essex County Superior Court withheld the names of the couple and emphasized that normally, "mixed marriages are of no more concern to courts than interracial marriages." But in the Idaho town where they would live, he noted, "the two children and their mother would be the only Jews. There are but two temples in the state, the nearer one being almost 300 miles away. Of Idaho's population (692,000), only 500, or .07%, are Jews." The father, on the other hand, lives in northern New Jersey, where "temples, Hebrew schools and extrareligious facilities abound." Citing C. Bezalel Sherman...
Fission's frightening potential quickly became apparent to scientists everywhere. But Hitler considered the new theoretical physics too contaminated by Jews like Lise to be worthy of much support. Although not a Jew himself, Hahn was no friend of the regime. Throughout World War II, he was left undisturbed at his work, exploring radioactive isotopes. In the U.S., where scientists assumed that the Germans were following up his atom-splitting success, the race was on to achieve fission on a more Promethean scale. In 1945, after Germany's defeat, the results were displayed at Hiroshima...
...Stephanie's guest, Stanley plunges into the brilliant intellectual and social haut monde in Salzburg for the music festival. He is a self-conscious blunderer, but the one thing he understands far better than his indifferent friends is the true nature of Hitler's mania. The Jew and Gentile gathered to hear Toscanini conduct Fidelia cling to the illusion that Austria is protected by some ineluctable immunity. But after watching his barber preen in his new National Socialist uniform, and after seeing the troopers take over the best restaurants, Stanley knows that he must get out. He realizes...
...Israel is the greatest Jewish undertaking of our age. Every Jew should feel duty-bound to participate, for we are one people...
Alternative for Agnostics? The five-day Reform conference in Jerusalem, which concluded last week, gave the progressives a solid stake in Israel. While not abandoning their conviction that a Jew should be at home anywhere, the delegates wanted to achieve greater Reform influence in Judaism's traditional homeland. One of Reform's main arguments is that Orthodoxy-implanted in Israel by its post-World War II settlers-is unacceptable to perhaps as much as 70% of the country's Jewish population because of its rigid anachronisms...