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...Winnebagos, microwaves, VCRs, IBMs, electric pencil sharpeners, electric knives, electric chairs, Minute Rice, bullet trains, Dial-A-Prayer, Dial-A-Psychotherap ist, automatic windows, automatic doors, wash 'n' wear, Shake 'n' Bake, heat 'n' serve? Did I tell you the one about the traveling salesman, or the minister, the rabbi and the priest? The humor of our times would baffle you to distraction. A contemporary comedian brings down the house by relating situations in which he receives no respect...
Whether he was born in Appleton or not, Houdini did spend the first nine years of his life there. His real name was Ehrich Weiss, and he was the son of Appleton's first Reform rabbi, a Hungarian immigrant. Everyone in Appleton has heard about young Ehrich Weiss and how the night clerk at the Waverly Hotel taught him his first rope trick. Gus Zuehlke, today the chairman of Valley Bancorporation, remembers listening to his father spin tales about young Ehrich's daring escapes from the Fox River, which meanders its way right through the heart of town. "My father...
MANY ANTI-SEMITES see themselves as the victims of a sinister and well-coordinated Jewish conspiracy. Kahane, who ironically bears the title of rabbi, also shares this delusion. He claims that "liberal Jewish McCarthyites" plot to supress his views, which are anti-democratic and, many believe, racist. For his visit to Cambridge, therefore, Kahane sought to manufacture local villains. And although he was unsuccessful in getting Harvard or Hillel, the Jewish student center, to oblige by suppressing his speech, Kahane used the material at hand to unleash his standard litany of accusations and threats. The Crimson found his claims newsworthy...
...Rabbi Samule Z. Fishman, associate national director of B'nai Brith Hillel Foundations, said that the policy banning JDL representative is binding on all Hillels...
Kahane's talk at San Diego State University hadoriginally been sponsored by the Jewish StudentsUnion, a Jewish group on campus which laterreconsidered and withdrew its invitation. TheModel U.N. Club at the school agreed to sponsorKahane three hours before he was scheduled tospeak, said Rabbi Jay N. Miller, director ofJewish campus centers of San Diego