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...activities, and indeed of its very existence. Still, the new Jewish militancy, born in the enclaves of Brooklyn and Manhattan's Lower East Side, now extends to some middle-class businessmen, rabbis in non-Orthodox synagogues, and even upper-middle-class suburbanites on Long Island. At nationally known Yeshiva University, a young doctoral candidate is training 100 students in karate so that they can go out as karate teachers themselves. A dozen karate clubs are already in existence at Jewish day schools, and even in private homes...
...peopled by the Goldbergs and the Rosenthals--but Roxbury is no longer Jewish, and the awesome granite structure is no longer a temple. It serves a new constituency and a new purpose now: it is the National Center for Afro-American Artists. Last Friday in the auditorium of the Yeshiva, the National Afro-American Center presented its first Black Film Festival...
...they may be neutron stars: tiny bodies of densely packed neutrons, which are atomic particles having no electrical charge. The only thing that seems reasonably certain is that the pulsars are not much larger than Earth and are 50 to 400 light-years away. Says Astrophysicist A.G.W. Cameron of Yeshiva University, the conference chairman: "It's going to be a damn hard job to make any theory fill the bill...
Oftentimes Overdone. U.S. scientists have already devised a host of theories about pulsars. Yeshiva University Astrophysicist A.G.W. Cameron and Caltech Astronomer John B. Oke believe the mysterious objects may be white dwarfs, Cameron suggesting that their frequency of oscillation is actually a harmonic of the lower frequency assigned to dwarfs by current theory. U.S. Naval Research Physicist Herbert Friedman of the U.S. Naval Research Lab oratory and Cornell Astronomer Thomas Gold support the neutron-star hypothesis. Gold speculates that the first pulsar identified may be an extremely dense body as small as six to 60 miles in diameter that rotates...
Inevitable Break. Potok's confrontation begins when 15-year-old Reuven Malter, brave but bespectacled star of his yeshiva (parochial school) softball team, clashes on the base paths with Danny Saunders, intense, blue-eyed and a sort of Jewish Frank Merriwell. Danny deliberately slams a line drive into Reuven's glasses, Precipitating a 58-page hospital sequence, during which the two boys' enmity grows toward friendship even as the Allies invade France and push out of Saint-L6 toward the Rhine...