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...pawnbroker's cage dealing with his customers as through the prison fence. The cage also symbolizes his isolation, emphasized by Lumet's close-up shots of Nazemann locking himself in and out. Inside the cage he is the Nazi officer responding to human misery with utter callousness, the Jew playing persecutor. But when a destitute woman enters to sell her wedding ring, he cannot avoid his own memories, shown as flashbacks, of German soldiers tearing gold rings from the fingers of their victims...
Through Jewish Lenses. It may be that too many U.S. Jews are indolent and unschooled in their spiritual heritage, Katz admitted; nonetheless, the impact of Judaism on U.S. culture is so prevalent that "it is a popular pastime to probe the world through Jewish lenses," typically in a musical like Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof. For proof of Jew ish vitality throughout the world, he cited B'nai B'rith's 26% gain in operating finances since the last convention, and the presence of its educational Hillel Foundation on 253 campuses, with 268 more schools...
...vanishing Jew' is a myth," agreed Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assem bly. Speaking at the Catskills' Concord Hotel to the annual convention of Conservative rabbis, Kelman argued that while in prewar Europe Jewish partners in a mixed marriage customarily abandoned their faith, the opposite is true in the U.S. now. Today, he declared, "a large number of non-Jewish part ners are willing and eager to convert to Judaism...
...Breed. What the U.S. has today is a "new breed" of Jew "who is proud of his Jewishness even when he is vague in his knowledge and definition of what Judaism means to him" -the man who buys Saul Bellow's Herzog and "wants his children to know more about his tradition." The American Jew, said Kelman, has largely abandoned fundamentalism for ecumenism; while he wants more rabbis and religious schools, he also has "reverence for the integrity of those who hold different beliefs and he does not look on those who differ from him as wicked or deficient...
...secret right-wing group that called itself St. Michael's Order. The day the first installment appeared Michanek received an anonymous letter suggesting that there was much more information to be had about St. Michael's. The mysterious tipster turned out to be a Swedish Jew, Goran Granquist, 25, who had wormed his way into the order and wanted to tell all. He proceeded to give the pair of reporters enough tantalizing leads to start them on a two-month job of night-and-day sleuthing...