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List Professor of Jewish Studies Jon D. Levenson ’71—who has expressed concern about the gift and signed a petition organized by Fish urging the money’s return—praised Harvard for arriving at this decision even though “the financial pressures pushed in the opposite direction...
...become the splash, the main page-one news story, which is at the heart of each day's urgency. Conversation rattles around the table. Someone's heard unfavorable comments from sources about Labor's standing among local Israelis. Has party leader Mark Latham alienated the influential Jewish community? Whittaker's asked to get a journalist to check it out. What about a response to the federal government's suggestion that it might have to ship radioactive waste offshore because South Australian premier Mike Rann opposes plans for a dump there? "Rann deserves a pasting," is the verdict. It's decided...
...basic argument - as I learned it in the Zionist youth movement in South Africa - has been that Jewish life in the Diaspora is inherently unsafe, unfulfilling, and transient. Sooner or later, all Jews will realize that their destiny lies in Israel. But the demographic trends are showing the opposite: A majority of Jews when given the choice, have chosen to remain in the Diaspora. Not only that; a growing number of Israeli Jews appear to be choosing to join them. Late last year, the Israeli government revealed that some 760,000 Israeli Jews are currently living abroad, a number that...
...steamed that they're calling on the Israeli government to pressure Germany to stop "enticing" Jews to settle there. The very fact that Jews leaving the former Soviet territories are being given a choice to go anywhere other than Israel appears to be unacceptable, since in the words of Jewish Agency chairman Sallai Merridor "this drastically effects immigration to Israel." Merridor appears oblivious to the irony in attacking Germany for making it easier for Jews to live there...
...says the same thing to any of my relatives elsewhere in the Diaspora. "Go back to Israel" was a message I heard occasionally growing up, both from Zionist emissaries promoting immigration and from rightwing anti-Semites hostile to my anti-apartheid views, which they somehow mistook to be uniquely Jewish. Unlike Sharon, I can't accept that fighting anti-Semitism in France is futile, because I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses to live...