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...more conscious of Judaism because of Jewish philosophers like Martin Buber (TIME. Jan. 23). In such fertile soil the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at New Jersey's Seton Hall University plants a seed of fact: Christ is the link as well as the difference between Christian and Jew...
...should Jews observe kashruth? Says Rabbi Leonard Oschry of Chicago's Hebrew Theological College, who is leading a campaign for more kosher households: "By observing it, I make my whole life holy; it is a daily reminder of my Jewishness." Said a Jewish housewife: "You can't really be a good Jew if you don't keep a kosher house...
...Born the same year as Shakespeare (1564), Marlowe managed, in a short life, to write some fine lyric poetry ("Come live with me and be my love"), a long narrative poem (Hero and Leander), and four superb poetic dramas: Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II. A militant atheist, in flight from arrest, he was killed at 29 during a drunken brawl in a riverside tavern near London, probably a political victim of Queen Elizabeth's Secret Service...
...Look. The most startling phenomenon in today's Israel is that there is not yet a recognizable Israeli. It is as false to picture him as a tough colonizer as it is to think of him as an ascetic-looking, hollow-cheeked, dark-skinned Yemenite or ringleted old Jew straight out of a Polish ghetto. The Ingathering of the Exiles crammed the new republic with people from 70 lands, without mutual understanding, unable to speak to each other, refusing often to pray together. Half the population is now composed of Oriental Jews, many of them near-primitive savages from...
...Dreyfus story is extremely complicated, and if it sometimes appears totally confused in the film, the script-writer can hardly be blamed. The affair began in 1894, when some secret French defense plans leaked into German hands. The commanders of the French army picked Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the only Jew on the General Staff, to take the blame, and after and absurd court-martial sent him to Devil's Island. Eventually, of course, the novelist Emile Zola came to his aid, with the result that the Captain finally received his freedom and the award of a Legion of Honor...