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...America, for that matter--Israelis continually strive for a more comfortable, secure existence. But Jewish history shows that such a material quest is not enough to maintain religious liberty; it must also be accompanied by a struggle to maintain cultural identity for Jews to ensure their freedom in a non-Jewish world...
...from biblical studies to an examination of the plight of Soviet Jews. Indeed, last week he exhorted Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to allow five Soviet Jews, as well as Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, to emigrate, and this week he is traveling to Moscow to help organize a conference on non-Jewish victims of Nazism. Wiesel has also worked to help Cambodian refugees, the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua and starving children in Africa...
Peretz owes his readers an explanation as to why a Machiavellian politician who lives and runs in a non-Jewish district might pretend he was Jewish when he was not. To say that his Machiavellian calculus is "unfathomable" is either to acknowledge that it was not Machiavellian at all, or that the underlying facts are simply wrong...
...same name, something he did before more plausibly and palatably Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. But the novel itself is not that good to begin with. Not Richler's best work, it is a provincial rendition of the self-hating Jewish man's odyssey, his archetypal pursuit of the elusive non-Jewish woman (subtley known as the shiksa...
...recent weeks, he's also been asked to explain statements made about Jews. Some of the senator's best friends are Jewish, the senator said, and they're among "the most intelligent people I know." But they're "too emotional" over the question of an undivided Jersusalem. His patronizing attitude ignores serious moral and foreign policy questions being asked by Jewish and non-Jewish voters alike. At a suburban Illinois synagogue last week. Percy suggested that Jews have to live in "the real world when it comes to school prayer"--as if all those who oppose voluntary school prayer live...