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Labor economist and Professor at the School of Education at Stanford University Myra H. Strober spoke yesterday at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute (RPPI) about the "invisible" work of women...
...This isn't a matter of what Lorna needs but of return on investment," says Stanford economist Myra Strober, who testified on her behalf. The Wendts started out with a net worth of $2,500, counting all their wedding gifts, and she gave up her job as a music teacher shortly after helping to put him through Harvard Business School. (Lorna has introduced into evidence her Ph.T., a "Put Hubby Through" degree, awarded by the dean back then.) They proceeded...
...verdict came as welcome news for Jews both in the Soviet Union and abroad. As Jerry Strober of the U.S. National Conference on Soviet Jewry put it, the decision was "a further sign of the Soviet Union's increasing recognition of its human-rights obligations...
This change of mood has produced some alarmist rhetoric. In his book American Jews: Community in Crisis, Gerald S. Strober, a former staff member of the American Jewish Committee, predicts that current trends will make "life rather unpleasant for the individual Jew" in America, and that U.S. Jews are now entering "the most perilous period" in their history. Author and Playwright Elie Wiesel, survivor of Nazi concentration camps, claimed, in the New York Times, that for the first time he could "foresee the possibility of Jews being massacred in the cities of America or in the forests of Europe" because...
...Jews "has lost its power" in the U.S. But, he said, it is still a danger to Jews in some countries where the film will be shown. Actually, the film is such a screaming, witless enterprise (TIME, July 30) that religion and stereotypes aside, it probably deserves Strober's appraisal as a "catastrophe." In other respects, the criticism seems exaggerated; it is doubtful that anyone not already a confirmed bigot would be swayed by the film. As for criticizing the Temple's high priests, Superstar is hardly the first to do that. Far angrier words against the priests...