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...also true that Bush's oscillating policy is a by-product of his deep-seated political instincts. Every foreign policy official who will speak even guardedly about the current situation says the President has one eye locked on the 2004 election. Bush isn't courting Jewish votes with his tilt toward Israel; he is courting Christian conservatives in his party's base who are deeply pro-Jerusalem (see box). Many Republicans who are willing to accept Bush's rightward tilt on domestic matters are growing increasingly impatient with its influence on foreign policy...
...Pen’s strong showing is especially distressing given the spate of anti-Jewish incidents that have rocked France in the last few weeks. Synagogues have been burned, shot at and vandalized across France. Europe’s latent anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head and Le Pen’s stunning victory reinforces the notion that France is standing by, if not encouraging, the continued attacks against its Jewish citizens. The apathy surrounding the attacks on Jews was mirrored by the dismal turnout for the election. The turnout—although high by American standards?...
Ariel Z. Weisbard ’02-’03 is co-chair of the Progressive Jewish Alliance and a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement...
Weiler, who is half black and half Jewish, chose to become more active in the black community on campus after being what he calls “incognegro” during his first year. “I had no black friends,” he says. When he arrived at Harvard, he was more involved with the Jewish community. For Weiler, a self-described “mutt” who interacts socially with students of all ethnicities, shifting his primary social community was the result of many factors, including politics (he feels his views are more liberal than...
...happening. If, as some leaders of other ethnic student organizations say, white students self-segregate as much as anyone else, they are not conscious of doing so. The Crimson survey found that while Harvard’s campus has some white communities that identify strongly with an ethnicity (the Jewish community, for example), 26.3 percent of the 274 white students surveyed said their race/ethnicity was not at all a part of their identity (versus 11.9 percent of all other students). As such, when they talk about their experiences with self-segregation it is usually in reference to their experiences with...