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...boss was Edgar Bronfman. Heir to the Seagram spirits business, he had devoted his early years to building the company founded by his father into a multibillion-dollar empire. Only when his ardently Zionist father died in 1971 did Edgar rediscover his faith. For the past 20 years, he has expended much of his formidable energy and much of his time on the activities of the World Jewish Congress. Bronfman first transformed the relatively passive fund-raising charity into a prime mover of Jewish causes. He has personally bankrolled much of the organization's work and used his stature...
What happened? The Western media were simply taken in by a lie--an easily provable lie--put out by the P.L.O. and the Arab League. At Arafat's urging, the League issued within 48 hours of the tunnel's opening a declaration calling the tunnel "part of an Israeli Zionist plot to destroy the Aqsa mosque [and] set up the Temple of Solomon...
...Giving us money to buy a book, enabling us to gain more knowledge is a great way and the most appropriate way to honor us," said Miriam B. Goldstein '99, a physics concentrator. "I will probably buy The Zionist Idea by Arthur Hertzberg, a collection of the most important Zionist documents because I am interested in Jewish history...
...good thing about a democracy [WORLD, June 10] is that it lets people make a choice; the bad thing is that their choice may very well be the worst possible one. Many of the people who voted for Netanyahu hope that maybe this hard-line perennial Zionist can make peace with the Arabs without any land concessions. Netanyahu is more of a seasoned politician than a war hero. He promised the people everything they wanted to hear, and he fed the public's hunger for assurance of its territorial security. But history will prove that the Jewish people, as well...
...Yossi's world Philip Roth and his fictional double would be dismissed as a Jewish Amos and Andy, a contributor to "a culture of self-abasement and vulgar excess." Young Halevi's heroes were fighting Jews: the Zionist firebrands of the 1930s; the invincible Israeli army; and U.S. extremists like Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded the Jewish Defense League...