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Professor of Yiddish Literature and of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse, a supporter of the Rudenstine compromise, said Harvard students should be allowed to participate in ROTC so that the military will benefit from their service...
Some stores are also celebrating Hanukkah. An assortment of Yiddish music was on display at HMV. HMV also plans displays to celebrate Kwanzaa, an African-American holiday observed after Christmas. --Material from the Associated Press was used in this report...
...loud, never sentimental and wimpy. They command their characters and the stage with farcial abandon. Yenta Pesha (Sokol) throws giant plastic pickles at her husband, Gronam Ox (Levin), whenever be does something stupid. She wags her tongue, spits and gags attempting some of the more delicate words of the Yiddish language, and her flexible face will always tell you what she's (not) thinking even if her words do not. In other words, she knows how to put on a show; it has little to do with drama, at least the type proffered by the distracting plot of this piece...
Literature and Arts A-48, "The Modern Jewish Experience in Literature," will be taught by Professor of Yiddish Literature and of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse. Students enrolling in the class will read works in different languages and genres that examine the experience of Jews in this century...
...current challenge has come in the case of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet. Kiryas Joel is a municipality in upstate New York where virtually all citizens are in the Satmar sect of Hasidic Orthodox Jewry. Kiryas Joel adheres rigidly to Old World dress and ways and maintains a close-knit, Yiddish-speaking community that tries to shield itself from outside influences. TV, movies and even higher education are shunned...