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Clearly, the posters were presented in manner in which public outrage toward the postering would be maximized. It is virtually impossible that the committee could not have expected the rather understandable way in which students, both Jewish and non-Jewish, reacted to unsubstantiated attempts at Israel-bashing...
...nearly $1 billion to a family trust to help the poor. The sum represents his entire estate, except for $3 million he left his grandchildren. The trust will distribute up to $45 million a year to the needy as Weinberg dictated: one-quarter to Jewish charities, one-quarter to non-Jewish groups and the rest to organizations that serve the poor, regardless of race or religion...
What worries Jews and many non-Jewish Soviets is that such nationalistic ravings might gain support in a time of heightened ethnic tensions and economic uncertainty. In January a band of some 50 Pamyat supporters disrupted a meeting of liberal writers in Moscow, waving anti-Semitic banners and shouting racist slogans. One hooligan warned the crowd, "We have come this time with a megaphone -- but next time with a gun." On a video clip shown on state-run television, a protester shouted, "Neither the KGB nor the party can help you now. We will be masters of the country...
...inclusion of the five million non-Jewish Holocaust victims in the Brandeis project would not have diminished its effectiveness. In fact, if Poskin's group is relying on the visual impact of six million pebbles to accomplish its goal, it seems that the sheer sight of 11 million pebbles would only hammer home even harder the horrors of the Holocaust. Simple arithmetic, right...
THERE will be events during Brandeis' Holocaust Rememberance Week to pay tribute to the Nazi's non-Jewish victims, according to Poskin. But the fact remains that the pebble display makes a powerful statement about the Holocaust, both in whom it memorializes and whom it does...