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...small band of Jewish militants (see THE NATION), Moscow's retaliatory campaign against Americans tapered off last week. There was no easing, however, of the Soviet propaganda campaign accusing Washington of complicity in the Jewish Defense League's guerrilla tactics against Russian diplomats. Even the Chief Rabbi of Moscow joined in the protests. In a letter delivered to the U.S. embassy in Moscow, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin wrote: "Soviet Jews do not want the help of unsolicited protectors and fascist Jews...
...Memorial Church Crisis was a simple affair, really. IN 1957, a Jewish couple requested permission to be married, by a rabbi, in the University's interdenominational Church. The request was denied, and Pusey explained the denial by proposing the thesis that Harvard was not, strictly speaking, interdenominational, but interdenominational-Christian. Under immense pressure from every quarter, the Corporation was compelled to retract the stand, and open the Church to all comers...
Forming the background of the new Jewish response is, of course, the example of Israel, tough and defiant in a hostile sea of Arabs. "Israel has changed everything," says Rabbi Sholom Ber Gorodetsky of the Lubavitcher group in Crown Heights. "The Six-Day War has given Orthodox Jews a courage they never had before." Israel, in a carefully nonofficial way, has supplied more than example. The first karate classes in Brooklyn were taught by bearded, fifth-generation Israeli Zvi Kasspi, an Israeli army veteran. Another Israeli. Hillel Oman, is listed as a teacher of Hebrew studies at the Yeshiva...
...like Abraham and Kaminetsky are apt to explain their intent in terms of psychology and image. Rabbi Emanuel Rackman of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue says: "Jewish children have been taught to flee. I think it is healthier for kids to defend themselves." At the other extreme, Rabbi Mendel Greenberg of the Hasidic Satmar group sits in his Williamsburg home and displays a .38-cal. pistol and M-l rifle...
Died. Dr. David de Sola Pool, 85, retired rabbi of New York City's Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and a world leader of Judaism; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Pool was one of three Americans on the Zionist Commission to Palestine in 1919; the next year he was in charge of the distribution of American funds to Jewish war victims in Palestine and Syria. An authority on the history of Jews in America, he made it his mission to promote understanding of their important role in settling the New World. In Portraits Etched in Stone (1952), he described the arrival...