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Today, in synagogues and Jewish community centers across the U.S., speakers who a few years ago were labeled "self-hating Jews" and worse for advocating compromise with the Palestinians are routinely welcomed and applauded, though often uneasily. Says Gary Rosenblatt, co-editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times: "If Jews are talking to the outside world, they will be more inclined to rally around the Israeli position. But if they're talking frankly among themselves, then you find a more open sense of frustration with Israel...
...decision that last week struck down Arizona's official English law. The measure, which was narrowly approved as a state constitutional amendment two years ago, required state and local governments to conduct their business in English. Although a state court had earlier upheld the provision, federal district Judge Paul Rosenblatt concluded that the law violated First Amendment guarantees. He ruled that the law forced government officials and employees "to curtail their free-speech rights" by impermissibly tying their tongues in their dealings with non-English-speaking constituents. Arizona Governor Rose Mofford, who criticized the law as "flawed from the beginning...
...graduate student at Harvard from 1968 to 1972, Rampersad says his experience in academia has been typical of his generation. While at Harvard, Rampersad for the first time encountered Black literature in the classroom--as a section leader for Roger Rosenblatt's course on Afro-American fiction, which was the first course of its kind taught at Harvard...
...already gone into Widener on my own and read [Black authors]," he says. "But Rosenblatt's course was the first time that literature was brought into the classroom for me, and I just kept on with...
Rampersad says that the large extent to which undergraduates were involved in the discipline's formation has affected the future course of Afro-American studies. For example, Rosenblatt's course on Black fiction was brought into the curriculum as a result of lobbying efforts by students, he says...