In A Moment
IN A MOMENT Without the West Bank, Israel would be only nine miles wide at its narrowest point; with the West Bank it is four times this width. Two reserve generals in the Israel Defense Forces...
...Should Jews who emigrate from the Soviet Union be considered "refugees" under American law when they are free to settle in Israel, asks Eric Rozenman in this month's On My Mind (p...
...Israeli immunologist David W. Weiss declined an invitation to attend a scientific conference in Austria on the 50th anniversary of the German annexation of Austria...
...During his 12 years as managing editor of The Washington Post, Simons encouraged the Post's investigation into the 1972-1974 Watergate affair...
...A journalist and author, Simons is curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University...
...In 1913, Leo Frank, a northern Jew and manager of an Atlanta, Georgia, pencil factory, was arrested and falsely accused of the murder of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found in the factory...
...In a public lecture given the morning of election day last year, Alan M. Fisher correctly predicted how the Jews and the nation would vote in the presidential election...
...But Major General Shlomo Gazit draws a distinction between security borders and political borders and responds that Israel can relinquish political control of the West Bank in negotiating a peace settlement...
...These laws call for couples to abstain from sex for an interval of at least 12 days each month, beginning with the woman's menstrual period and ending with her immersion in a mikvah, a ritual bath...
...see review, p. 56...
...Prior to making aliyah in 1966, Weiss was professor of bacteriology and immunology at the University of California...
...Teller is best known for his work on the hydrogen bomb, but earlier was a key member of the Manhattan Project ¦ at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which developed the atom bomb...
...Rozenman, formerly editor of the weekly Near East Report, is now publications editor for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) in Washington, D.C...
...He is also the author of The Wings of the Dove: Jewish Values, Science and Halacha (B'nai B'rith Books, 1988...
...Having experienced the menace of Nazi Germany, Teller said he had no qualms about developing a weapon that would stop Hitler...
...Gazit, a senior research fellow at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, served as Coordinator of Israeli Government Operations in the Administered Territories from 1967 to 1974, and was director of military intelligence from 1974 to 1979...
...Fisher is professor of political science at California State University, Domin-guez Hills...
...41), Fisher says that American Jews are slowly moving to the right...
...Levran is co-author of The Middle East Military Balance 1987-1988: A Comprehensive Data Base and In-depth Analysis of Regional Strategic Issues (Jaffee Center/ Westview, 1988...
...Gazit is also a member of the Council for Peace and Security, an organization established in 1988 to clarify Israel's security problems...
...See "The Significance of Gestures: A Prominent Israeli Scientist Explains Why He Won't Go to Austria" (p...
...After a sensationalized 29-day trial that held the nation's attention, Frank was sentenced to hang...
...What does a progressive, feminist, Conservative Jewish couple find rewarding about observing the ancient laws of "family purity...
...see review in the December 1988 MOMENT), and he writes a column called "The Practical Rabbi" for B'nai B'rith's Jewish Monthly...
...Austria has not grappled with its Nazi past and refuses to acknowledge its latent anti-Semitism, as evidenced by its election of President Kurt Waldheim, Weiss wrote to the conference sponsor...
...Simons is co-author of The Media and the Law (Praeger, 1976), The Media and Business (Praeger, 1979) and The Landing (Vil-liard, 1986), a spy novel...
...He pursued graduate studies in mathematics before deciding to study for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was ordained in 1979...
...He is the author of And Hannah Wept: Infertility, Adoption, and the Jewish Couple (Jewish Publication Society, 1988...
...When American Jewish Congress president Howard Squadron befriended power broker E. Robert Wallach, it seemed like a stroke of good luck...
...Two reserve generals in the Israel Defense Forces evaluate the military significance of the territories in "The West Bank As a Military Asset— How Important...
...He has been a commentator on Jewish voting behavior and public opinion for the past 10 years...
...In interviews conducted by author Howard Simons, two men who grew up in Atlanta tell of the subtle anti-Semitism they experienced from their white peers there...
...A native of Los Angeles, Gold is the rabbi of Beth El Congregation of the South Hills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...Sinai Field Mission, and defense attache in Tokyo and Seoul...
...A leading researcher in the field of cancer immunology, Weiss is professor and chairman of the department of immunology at the Hebrew University Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology in Jerusalem...
...But when Wallach arranged for Squadron's law firm to represent Wedtech, it was the beginning of "Connections: Howard Squadron's Wedtech Troubles" (p...
...Israel should not give up the strategic depth the West Bank provides, says Brigadier General Aharon Levran...
...Georgia's governor commuted Frank's sentence to life imprisonment, but four months later Leo Frank was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan...
...He has served as assistant for operational intelligence to the IDF chief of intelligence, liaison with UN forces and the U.S...
...Evelyn Gold adds her own perspective on their observance in an accompanying box...
...Born in Vienna, Austria, Weiss fled with his family to the United States in 1938, the year the Germans annexed Austria...
...Gazit is the author of The Stick and the Carrot (Zmorah-Bittan, 1985), which describes Israel's policies in the administered territories...
...In 1955 he received the IDF Medal of Distinction for operations behind enemy lines...
...Levran retired from military service in 1984 after serving 30 years in the IDF...
...26), Teller forecasts that Israel will develop three technologies: genetic engineering to produce new agricultural products, safe nuclear reactors, and new defense systems to combat ballistic missiles...
...He is still a consultant there, as well as a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University...
...In "Israel and the Technological Revolutions of the 21st Century" (p...
...Today, Jews of Atlanta find themselves "Still in the Shadow of Leo Frank" (p...
...In "Where the Jewish Vote Is Going" (p...
...He finds a generational split among Jewish voters and a split between the Orthodox and other affiliated Jews...
...MOMENT editor Hershel Shanks pieces together Squadron's involvement on the periphery of the Wedtech scandal, based in part on interviews with Squadron and Wallach...
...A divided Jewish vote may benefit the Jews, says Fisher...
...So began a correspondence between Weiss and an Austrian pathologist...
...Well-connected, Wallach introduced him to Attorney General Edwin Meese III...
...Today, Teller is retired from his position as associate director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where he spent more than 20 years conducting research...
...Michael Gold describes the meaning that he and his wife have found in this intimate and often misunderstood tradition, in "Family Purity—A Fresh Look at the Mikvah" (p...
...Hungarian-born Teller studied and taught in Germany until Nazi persecution of Jews led him to leave in 1933...
...Looking ahead into the 21st century, Edward Teller, one of the world's foremost nuclear scientists, predicts that the world will benefit from Israeli scientific ingenuity...
...Squadron and Wallach socialized together and traveled to Israel together with their families...
Vol. 14 • March 1989 • No. 2
