Word: jewish
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More gimmickry was in evidence last week. The Begin Cabinet, after days of heated debate over whether to stop the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, finally concluded that there was "no need at this time for any new decision." Jerusalem's announcement highlighted a serious dispute within the fractious Begin Cabinet, which has Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon pressing ahead with new settlements while Defense Minister Ezer Weizman calls for an end to that activity during the negotiations. Using his military authority to fight the Sharon policy, Weizman ordered that some 20 young farmers be barred from...
Anatoli Shcharansky, the Soviet computer expert and Jewish activist who has become the leading target of Moscow's campaign against dissidents, is nearing a grim anniversary: as of next week, he will have been held incommunicado for a full year in Moscow's Lefortovo prison while awaiting trial on espionage charges. Last week the regime gave him a present of sorts, a state-appointed lawyer named Silva Dubrovskaya, who was described by the chairman of the Moscow bar association as a "lovely woman and a very experienced trial lawyer." One of her first acts was to express surprise...
Thus far the Carter administration has, commendably, voiced opposition to the settlements, perhaps in the hope of influencing the outcome of last week's vote. Apparently they failed this time, but one can only hope that the Carter administration, with the full support of the American Jewish community, will use all available diplomatic means to persuade Israel's leaders to come to their senses...
Lies My Father Told Me. My friends all cried during this Canadian "I remember Grandpa" tale by Jan Kadar, set in a Jewish ghetto. Gramps rode the streets in a horse-drawn wagon, selling and buying rags, clothes, and bottles, and teaching his grandson, the narrator, to be simple, pious, etc. I found it lumpy and mediocre, with one of the most puerile scores ever written, but the atmosphere is pleasant, and you might sniffle a little when they take away Grandpa's horse and it kills him. Nasty, bad people...
...American Jewish Congress-New England Region and the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston sponsored the conference in cooperation with the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association