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Moses lived to the golden age of 120-and gave his people a toast that has endured the centuries. "Biz hundert un tswantsik [until 120]," says the Jew on anniversary occasions, expressing the hope that the honored guest may live to equal Moses' span. Last week Jews all over the world raised a figurative glass to one among them that had reached the magic year: the Jewish Chronicle, the world's oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper...
...means of air between the lines, tiny type blocks, and large page numbers. The space fraud does not matter, but the unfulfilled expectation of substance does. There is only one major character, and he is not very interesting, even to himself. His name is Adam Rosenzweig, a young Bavarian Jew whose crippled left foot requires him to wear a special boot (his Jewishness makes him an outcast and his lameness, melodramatically, makes him doubly so-Warren still does not trust his own skill). Exalted with a vision of freedom, Adam decides to migrate to the U.S. to fight with...
Addressing prospective and actual members of the Student Zionist Organization, Comet observed that the lack of overt anti-Semitism in America has ironically undermined the value of Jewishness to the American Jew. In the creative Jewish communities of the past, in late 18th century Russia and Europe, Jews were subjected to hostility from outside of their community...
...American tendency to describe three western religious as parallel--Protestant, Catholic, Jew--is incorrect, he asserted. Judaism, inherently means not only a religion but a peoplehood, although this concept has been forgotten in America, and is hard for both the Jew and non-Jew to understand...
Ivan Illich, 35, was born in Vienna; his mother was a Spanish Jew and his father was a Yugoslav Roman Catholic. He took a Ph.D. in history at Salzburg when he was 24, studied theology at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1951. He came to New York City, became interested in Puerto Ricans...