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...little hope for a peaceable solution to Iraq's incipient civil war [March 6]. The philosophy of perpetual retaliation is devoid of love and not a part of God's plan for the human family. If the world hopes to survive and thrive, a holy war between Christian, Jewish and Islamic factions must be avoided. It is time to bury the sword and put on the mantle of love that should be worn in churches,synagogues and mosques everywhere. Paul L. Whiteley Sr. Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Before the usual voices claim that the sectarian violence in Iraq is evidence...
...Dershowitz said that the article used “quotes from [Israel’s first prime minister] David Ben-Gurion and [former president of the World Jewish Congress] Nahum Goldmann that are found repeatedly on hate sites,” and that in asserting that the Jewish state was founded on “blood kinship,” the authors were mistakenly conflating the right of Jews to immigrate to Israel with citizenship...
...Alan Light is fascinated by this story of the three white Jewish kids from New York City who rose to prominence as the first hip-hop group with a number one album on the billboard charts, 1987’s “License to Ill.” To satisfy his interest, the former editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin decided to go straight to the sources, interviewing all the key participants for his new oral history of the Beasties, “The Skills to Pay the Bills...
...early 1920s, University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, banned black students from freshman housing and attempted to introduce quotas to reduce Jewish enrollment...
Minority enrollment was miniscule in these years—with schools such as the largely Jewish Brandeis University in nearby Waltham and predominantly African-American Howard University in Washington, D.C. catering to students outside the standard Harvard demographic of those years...