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...color-blind. We're not going to all eat matzo-ball soup. We're not going to all wear white on white--we're not! But as my Jewish friends would say, We can come and kibitz together...
...with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords. “This made Rabin the first politician in the history of the world who armed his enemy in the expectation of gaining security,” Wisse said. “It is the most fatal policy of Jewish make-believe. Jews make believe they have no enemies.” Wisse asserted that Jews have a weakness caused by their “phenomenal” hunger for peace, and that no Jew wants war. “I think it is ludicrous to say that there...
...You” (2004), a short that turns unidentified family photos from pre-WWII Germany into a story of Child’s own creation. The film will be shown on Nov. 10 as part of Balagan Shorts, a series of short films sponsored by the 17th Annual Boston Jewish Festival. “Out of fragments, films of bodies in a domestic space, there was resonant public history,” Child says of the process of devising the film. “I wanted to trace this complex: at once biographical and fictive, detective and psychological...
Shortly thereafter, he persuaded the Faculty to adopt cryptic changes to admissions policy which reduced the percentage of Jewish freshmen at Harvard from 27.6 percent in 1925 to less than 15 percent when he retired in 1933, according to Jerome Karabel’s scathingly comprehensive “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...
...Street bears his family name; a stately bust of Lowell himself perches to one side of its picturesque courtyard. The Lowell Dining Hall bustles today with countless students its namesake would have undoubtedly labored to keep out—thriving undergraduates who happen to be female, gay, African-American, Jewish, or anything other than members of Lowell’s own high-WASP caste. Hanging prominently on the far wall, a large portrait of the former president stares down and frowns...