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Silberman argues that the anti-Semitism in the U.S. is merely residual. He examines the past and present opportunities in business, law, academe, journalism, politics and art. Upshot: today's American Jew is about 2˝ times as likely to wind up in Who's Who as the population at large...
April-Agro's enterprising president, Morris Demel, 50, a Polish-born Jew who grew up in Cuba and fled to Puerto Rico after Castro's takeover, planned to grow produce on arid southern coast farmland once used for sugar cane. Importing five Israeli agronomists and applying drip-irrigation methods developed on Israeli kibbutzim, Demel initially wanted to devote 5,000 acres to fruits and vegetables. But seven years after he began the project, only 1,000 acres are under cultivation...
...April-Agro controversy has also been clouded with a nativist suspicion of Demel and his new methods. Claridad, official newspaper of the pro-independence Puerto Rican Socialist Party, refers to Demel as the "Jew Cuban," and local planters refer to April-Agro as "the Israelis." The English-language San Juan Star, in urging the Governor to delay action against the experimental farm, pointed to "a deep-seated resentment against 'outside' farmers changing the way agriculture has been traditionally carried out." Hernández-Colón has stayed out of the dispute while his agriculture secretary attempts to negotiate a "painless" takeover...
Hasidim, in turn, are generally indifferent to or suspicious of outsiders. This makes all the more remarkable the achievement of Lis Harris, a secularized Jew and New Yorker staff writer, who worked her way into the Hasidic community and produced three lengthy articles for her magazine and a newly published book, Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family (Summit; 266 pages...
...most controversial in last week's triple play because it involved an intimate U.S. ally. The son of a University of Notre Dame microbiologist, Pollard attended Stanford and Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he earned a reputation as a strongly pro-Zionist Jew. Pollard used to perplex friends at college with elaborate tales about being an officer in the MOSSAD, Israel's version...