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...nation dedicated to gathering in the Jews of the world, Israel has never been able to answer a question basic to its existence: What is a Jew? Does a Jew become Jewish by birth, or by religious observance, or by mere inclination? Aware that providing an answer could rip apart the government's delicately balanced coalition of agnostic secularists and ultra-religious rabbis, the Knesset has never officially defined a Jew, although the word appears in many laws. Last week five justices of the Israeli Supreme Court retired to decide whether or not a tiny, bearded Roman Catholic monk...
...thinking Jews are convinced that passions will never cool until a way is found to get German and Jew together. To this end, some prominent Israelis have encouraged a small but growing West German program that organizes tours of Israel for hundreds of average Germans -trade unionists, students, professors, churchmen. Most successful part of the program is a sort of penance corps organized by Lothar Kreyssig, a prominent layman of the German Evangelical Church, who has sent two teams of volunteer German youths to work in the harsh surroundings of Israeli kibbutzim (collective farms). Financed entirely by Germans, Dr. Kreyssig...
...long run, Wyschogrod argues, "it is in the interest of the American Jewish community that America remain a Godfearing nation. The security of all mankind, as of the Jew, is to be found in a world in which God rules and in which all men have a sense of living under his judgment. The temporary and superficial toleration that the Jew enjoys in a completely secular, Godless world is no more than skin-deep." For no matter how deplorable is the history of Christian persecutions of Jews, Wyschogrod concludes, "the danger that threatens us today in this country...
Cheaper Than Concubines. The brothers work in rare tandem. They share a joint bank account, have adjacent offices at Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons. Ltd., which is named after their late father, an Iraqi Jew who became a naturalized British subject, went to Hong Kong in 1880 and carved out a fortune in land, rubber, banking and insurance. Together, the brothers sit on the boards of 36 major companies. Restless, sophisticated Lawrence Kadoorie, 63, has also been on several government administrative boards, pays particular attention to the power company, the biggest Kadoorie investment. He collects ancient Chinese art works because...
...Force)--which he illustrates by cavorting around the stage in all manner of curious attitudes, wildly illustrating, with suitable gestures, various aspects of his curiouser narratives. Miller also gives, in another bit, what is probably the best line in the show: "I'm not really a Jew, you know," he declares defensively, "just Jewish...