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...observe the Sabbath and dietary laws, and are circumcised. The Talmud, Jewish law and its interpretation, seems never to have reached them, however, because of their geographic isolation. The issue of whether the Ethiopians are even Jews was not settled in Israel until 1972. That was when Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef decreed that the Falashas are "undoubtedly of the tribe of Dan," the inhabitants of the biblical land of Havileh in what is today the southern Arabian Peninsula. A government committee later decided that the Ethiopians are covered by Israel's Law of Return, which permits all Jews...
...another controversy, American-born Rabbi Meir Kahane was rebuffed by his Knesset colleagues. Elected to parliament last July, Kahane advocates the forced removal of all Arabs from Israel and Israeli-occupied territories. Troubled by Kahane's anti-Arab activities, the Knesset last week limited his right as a member to travel without restriction. Next day Israeli police barred Kahane from entering the Israeli Arab village of Taibe, where he had gone to urge Arabs to leave Israel...
Spiro and a number of other observers find such justifications hard to accept. "Would they suggest that the world should forget the most criminal period in history?" asks Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, which helped Spiro investigate the Viennese doctor's past...
...ministerial. Wearing a yarmulke, he promised that if ever Israel were forced to walk out of the United Nations, America would walk out too. He charmed and soothed the congregation. The cameras picked him up; they picked him up again at lunch, eating apricot kugel (a pudding) at the rabbi's home immediately thereafter. The television "bites" that evening warmed the hearts of thousands of uncertain Jewish voters in middle-class Long Island; the Jewish vote was essential if he was to carry New York...
...Margin of Hope, Howe describes Abel as "a sort of freelance guerrilla ready to take on all comers." The Intellectual Follies is not as combative as this statement leads one to expect. The narrative adheres loosely to a chronology. Abel, son of a Niagara Falls rabbi, goes to Greenwich Village in 1929 to begin his literary venture. The Depression finds him there, receiving a weekly check from a federally sponsored writers' program. Many of the artists and litterateurs of the period had little affection for the hand that fed them; Abel notes with a twinkle that he stayed home...