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...English language has answers of its own-some of them offensive to Jew and non-Jew alike. For 35 years the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Britain's equivalent to the American B'nai B'rith, has tried to persuade lexicographers to change certain definitions in dictionaries. It has had scant luck with the editors of the magisterial Oxford English Dictionary, the most complete and authoritative record in existence of what English is and has been. Next month Marcus Shloimovitz, a 67-year-old textile salesman from Manchester, will take the argument one step further...
Anderson also apologized in print for a column published last year in which he accused President Nixon of ignoring B'nai B'rith appeals for a strong U.S. stand against the persecution of Soviet Jews. The White House letter on which the charge was based, Anderson conceded, "did not represent the President's views...
...Friday. "In April," announced an ad in Christian Herald, "one million Jews will watch one Christian telecast." If the million are in front of their TV sets, they will be watching something else. In the face of criticism from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the Synagogue Council of America and the New York Board of Rabbis, the New York showing of the film was canceled last week. Stations in ten other cities followed suit...
After all, who but Mourad Saber sleeps with one eye open against the militarist, fascist Zionists? Who else could uncover a Central American conspiracy linking the United Fruit Co. and B'nai B'rith? Who else could resist the sensual, calculating Israeli agent Judith Hertz ("You have the body of a goddess but the soul of a devil")? Who else could interrupt an African chase to lecture streetwalkers in Lourenço Marques on the evils of colonialism...
...autonomy to the logical extreme by ranking us as numbers in what is clearly a Game. The United States is now using the same method to decide the future of human beings that the Rotary Club used to pick winners of color T.V's. that the B'nai B'rith uses to name sponsors of trees in Israel...