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Settlement by Handshake. So entrenched are relationships in the trade that most transactions are based on simple confidence. Deals involving hundreds of stones are sealed without a count by a handshake and the binding Yiddish phrase: Mazel und brocket (Good luck and blessings) that is used by Jewish and non-Jewish dealers alike the world over...
About your May 19 article on Jewishness: Here's how this Israeli of American origin sees it. If American Jews feel so much a real, integral part of American life, why do they segregate themselves into carbon copies of non-Jewish groups? These contribute nothing to Judaism. They merely insulate the Jews so that they can continue to feel they are fully accepted, something they keep telling themselves every...
Annette Robinson reviews The Trial Begins, a novel of Russia's New Class by Abram Tertz that was smuggled out of the Soviet Union early last year. Perhaps because the subject is non-Jewish, Miss Robinson's writing is restrained and modest, avoiding the self-indulgent, sentimental egotism of some of the writing in Mosaic...
Your story of the failure to bury a child at the Jewish cemetery in Israel [Dec. 16] might have created an impression that the rabbis in Israel were heartless. In our religion, burial in a Jewish cemetery is a religious rite reserved to those who profess our faith. Since Aharon Steinberg was born of a non-Jewish mother, he was considered a non-Jewish child. The Catholic priest who refused the burial because the child was not baptized as a Catholic was following the tenets of his religion. Needless to say, it is natural for a religion to abide...
Jones' triumphs outweigh his faults. His familiarity with Freud and psycho-analysis, and the objectivity resulting from his being the only non-Continental, non-Jewish member of the psycho-analytic movement, combine to render him an almost ideal biographer. In addition, he writes well and clearly, and his syntheses of Freud's ideas are nothing short of brilliant...