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Though pockets of prejudice remain, the West German government has labored to atone for the dead by its treatment of the living: by helping to finance the building of synagogues to replace the 300 burned down by the Nazis; by paying every Jew who was in a concentration camp 150 Deutsche mark ($36) for every month he spent in camp; by paying 6,000 DM to any Jew who returns to Germany and helping him to find housing and a job; by providing him with preferences in government loans and contracts if he sets up in business. In addition, Germany...
...becoming more and more difficult to be both an "Eisenhower Republican" and a Jew. If the Administration continues to maintain its present policy of possible sanctions against Israel and just a slap on the wrist towards Nasser, Saud and the other decadent Arab leaders, it will have the unfortunate effect of driving us into the arms of the Democrats...
...Kovarsky, who was steeped in Jewish dogma and tradition during his childhood in Vilna, Lithuania, was sent to Palestine at 17. His first direct contact with the traditions of his forefathers came while he was working in a kibbutz (collective settlement). There he found a fellow laborer, a Yemenite Jew named Zachariah. who could describe such legendary objects as the ancient Tabernacle so vividly that young Yehoshua was able to draw them. After finishing his art education in Paris, Kovarsky went back to Israel, isolated himself to paint in the ancient city of Safad, cradle of Jewish mysticism and cabalism...
Judging from Lessing Rosenwald's opinion on Israel [Feb. 25], it's quite clear he is not one of the many millions of Jews who have been pushed from pillar to post throughout the centuries. Living in freedom and abundance, Mr. Rosenwald misconstrues the basic ideologies of Jewish consciousness, religion and nationalism. He probably doesn't know that synagogues are built for those who are well situated and have to be reminded about their Jewish heritage. But the starved and homeless Jew is quite aware of his heritage. No one is asking Mr. Rosenwald to integrate himself...
...placed me under great moral pressure, for I was keenly conscious of the personality and the standing of the writer. And if I was compelled to reply as I did, I did so only under a still stronger compulsion: the pressure of my conscience as a man and a Jew, the pressure of the justice for which my people were fighting . . . the crushing historic responsibility that rests on the representatives of this small nation in its hard and bitter struggle for survival against the many who seek to destroy...