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...Jewish communities are Israeli fortresses in the midst of Arab hostility. The stark reality is told in the barbed wire strung around Kiryat Arba, the largest settlement (pop. 1,700), and in the armed soldier who stands at the gate of Karnei Shomron. Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 42, of Kiryat Arba, a spokesman for the settlers, admits that he always carries a gun. "The Arabs don't want us here," he explains. "They'd kill us all if they could."' Relatively few settlers say they would stay on the West Bank without the Israeli army's protection...
Some U.S. supporters of Israel reacted in similarly apocalyptic terms. "The bond of trust has been broken," said Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York. Jewish leaders reported a wave of bitterness among Jews across the country. "I'm mad as hell," said Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, chairman of the 33-member Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. More than 1,000 Jewish students from New York demonstrated outside the White House, some carrying coffins symbolizing "the death of American morality." To such charges, and to equally groundless accusations of anti-Semitism on the part...
...voted 12 to 5 to keep the 1860 text, an action that prompted a Munich paper to bemoan the "ugly German" image it fosters. "We're thinking about changing a few points." said Mayor Ernst Zwink, but that will not satisfy Jews. The text is "beyond redemption." declared Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the A.J.C...
...many others, the show is a painful reminder of a tragic era. Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, a survivor of one of the World War II concentration camps, said yesterday he could not watch the series. Gold criticized the media for too often identifying Jews with the holocaust. "These are not our roots; this is a tragedy in our history," he said...
...must TIME call "polydox" adherents Jews [March 20]? Although Christianity was originally a sect of Judaism, would anyone in 1978 venture to call a Roman Catholic priest a liberal rabbi? Of course not. There are so many new religions that one cannot keep up with them any more, but don't confuse a new religion with a sect of an existing belief...