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More troubling to my mind is Rabbi Hertzberg's apparent attempt to link criticism of Israel with antiSemitism. The real issues in the Middle East-the fate of the Palestinians, control over Jerusalem, and the right of all nations, including Israel, to secure and just borders-defy facile solutions of any kind. They will be settled, if at all, in a spirit of intellectual honesty and compromise on all sides...
Controversy also upset the effort. Taking the evangelical rhetoric too literally, Jews were initially incensed by the "Christian America" overtones of the campaign. But Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, one of the most vehement critics, conceded later that the fracas had actually promoted better Jewish-Christian understanding of evangelism...
TUESDAY THE RABBI SAW RED by HARRY KEMELMAN 276 pages. Field...
Friday the rabbi slept late, Saturday he went hungry, Sunday he stayed home, and Monday he took off (for Israel). On Tuesday, in this popular mystery series, Rabbi David Small is back with his congregation in the Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing. A colleague who is also going to Israel recommends Small as his replacement teacher of a course in Jewish philosophy at a nearby college. He begins his academic side career with customary zeal. When a bomb goes off in the dean's office, apparently killing a faculty member, the police first arrest student radicals, then...
Kemelman's mysteries are unpretentious models of their kind. He writes orderly, ungimmicked plots, creates cleanly drawn characters and scrupulously avoids explicit sex and sadism. He places his mysteries in the context of the busy, stable life of a Conservative Jew. The rabbi's liturgical calendar, the duties and derelictions of his flock, their relations with the town's Roman Catholics-represented by Chief Lanigan and Father Ahern-are all taken with wry, judicious seriousness. There are few such solid series around. Chesterton and Father Brown would bless Kemelman and his rabbi...