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...understanding of how one can be victimized by a lack of power, says Shanker, stems from his days as a Yiddish-speaking boy in a non-Jewish neighborhood of Queens, where other kids called him a "Christ-killer." Once they even tied a rope around his neck and tried to hang him. At the University of Illinois, he bicycled six miles daily to the campus because, he claims, closer quarters were all "listed for WASPS, right there in the official university housing bureau." Looking back, it seems almost inevitable that he became a political activist. As chairman of the Socialist...
Since World War II, the number of non-Jewish secular campuses in the U.S. offering Judaic studies has jumped from seven to more than 100, and the growing demand has underlined the shortage of first-rate Jewish scholars. Schools are competing by upping salaries and fringe benefits. The migration of Jewish professors amounts to a new Diaspora, and even administrators of some Jewish schools are having difficulty in staffing their classrooms...
There is also a new understanding of what Judaism has to teach. After centuries of concentration in Europe, many Jewish scholars are now writing in America. The late Hebrew Philosopher Martin Buber, whose books stress concern for the individual over organized religion, has become a big man on non-Jewish campuses. "In the U.S.," ob serves University of Chicago Theologian J. Coert Rylaarsdam, "there is current ly a great vogue for things Jewish...
...resolution, the United Synagogue warned that "We should not fall into the traps set by anti-Semites and condemn all Jewish landlords as 'slum lords.' They that are such we do condemn, because they act immorally, as do non-Jewish slum lords." But "where special problems involving Negro-Jewish relationships arise, we urge our congregations to pay added attention to their solution." One proposal discussed at both conventions: the setting of practical standards of business ethics for Jewish landlords and entrepreneurs doing business in the ghettos...
...common and valid criticism by non-Jewish Middle Easterners is that the U.S. press is strongly influenced by Jews and Jewish sympathizers who continually feed the American public an unbalanced view of the whole Middle Eastern situation. Your August 11 article by an American Jew is typical evidence for this charge. I am referring specifically to his naive and one-sided narration of all the things that he didn't see and of all the events that never took place. e.g. "It is horrifying to speculate what would have happened had Israel been over-run by Arab forces...