Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that no one at this forum strongly suggested that self-segregation is a bad thing. Self-segregation, even when it is self-imposed and "positive," keeps people apart. For example, I am in a blocking group of thirteen, of which eleven of us are white, nine of us are Jewish and all of us are from well-off families. I don't know how such self-segregation happened, but I lament it. I wish my circle of friends were more diverse, not simply to "season the rice" of my social experience, but because I identify it as a problem...
...said he hoped the talk would "broaden the scope of 'pluralism' from a Jewish concern...to a universal concern...
...season to be sorry. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and other thriving German companies are now facing class-action suits from the thousands of slave laborers forced to work in their factories during the Nazi era, while Swiss banks that once swallowed Jewish assets have offered up $1 billion to Holocaust survivors. Former Bosnian leaders are facing international tribunals for crimes against humanity. And Jiang Zemin, his own human rights violations notwithstanding, has embarked this week on his first state visit to Japan, demanding written apologies from the Japanese government for its brutality in China during the 1930s and '40s-an apology...
...some of the many waves of disruption and destruction visited upon the victims, survivors and heirs of the Nazi Holocaust. The latest effort at restitution -- based on good intentions but relying only on good intentions -- comes out of a Washington conference of 44 countries and more than a dozen Jewish, cultural and business groups. The conferees agreed on a set of guidelines to retrieve and return Nazi-looted art to rightful owners and also to return communal property -- from former synagogues and schools, for example -- to Jewish communities. Stuart Eizenstat, head of the U.S. delegation which sponsored the gathering that...
With three other U.S. governors, Bush is on a visit to Israel organized with the help of the National Jewish Coalition, a Republican group. But the Israelis are especially interested in finding out who the younger Bush really is. "They didn't like his father much, " says Time Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer,"because President Bush was famous for taking on the Shamir government over settlement policy." The Israelis hope the younger Bush will develop a more Israeli-friendly attitude from his visit. For his part, the Texas Governor is happy just to get a good photo op -- you never...