Moments of Truth
MOMENTS OF TRUTH Watch your language!—According to a Tel Aviv court, calling a Jew who lives in Israel an "anti-Zionist" is a libelous insult. Damages for libel were recently awarded to members of...
...Actually, he said that "Jews are the fattest...
...Nicholson.—Al Pa-cino and Jack Nicholson have both expressed interest in a starring role in the Hollywood adaptation of Howard Blum's Wanted...
...The 76-year war against poverty.—Israel's much-respected Central Bureau of Statistics reports that at present rates, the gap in standard of living between Western and Eastern (often referred to as "Oriental") Jews in Israel will finally be eliminated in the year 2,053...
...Some time after the birth of a son, the couple divorced, and the son spent summers with his father—who would take him to the local Methodist Church to worship...
...at that rate, it's more like a war of attrition—without a winner...
...The answer is "no, not even close...
...That's a long war, even by Israeli standards...
...The wedding was performed by a rabbi who established as a condition for his officiating that both partners promise to establish a Jewish family life...
...Coals to Newcastle?—The first project of a recently formed organization devoted to promoting culture in the Galilee is a new orchestra, whose players will also teach in the eight towns of the region...
...Of these, 256 were Israelis, leaving 386 Britons—out of a total Jewish population of 410,000...
...Ugliness.—The tombstone of the former Lubavitcher rebbe was recently vandalized...
...My Cousin, the Doctor.—Jews comprise one percent of the total population of the Soviet Union, but hold 10 percent of the Ph.D.'s and 30 percent of the doctorates in the hard sciences...
...Are newspapers permitted to advertise opportunities for lawbreaking...
...The orchestra's conductor, Issak Tavior, has come to New York to recruit—string players...
...The ban refers to the policy of the Israeli government...
...Under the heading, "Wanted: Dedicated Jews!," there appears a message from Meir Kahane announcing the formation of an aliyah group "to defy ban on unauthorized settlements in liberated (sic) lands of Israel...
...would be 5,000...
...Block that knish!—Dr...
...Pacino vs...
...Blum's book deals with the unmasking of Nazi war criminals in the US who had been given haven with official connivance...
...Culprits were not the usual neighborhood hooligans, but members of the anti-Zionist Satmar Chassidic sect...
...The Search for Nazis in America...
...Advertisement of the Month.— The Sunday Times of March 13 carries an ad which, as far as we can tell, invites people to join in breaking the Israeli law...
...Go, Irish!—Notre Dame University is offering a new graduate concentration entitled "The Land of Israel in the Jewish Tradition," to be led by Professor Charles Primus...
...What To Do When You Run Out of Honorees.—Fans of Daniel Deronda will be pleased to learn that a grove of one thousand trees has been dedicated by the Jewish National Fund to the memory of Mary Ann Evans— better known as George Eliot...
...Albert Stunkard, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, testified recently before a Senate Committee that Protestants are thinner than Catholics, and Catholics are thinner than Jews...
...These professed enemies of the Jewish State are a good deal more explicit, and vicious, than the well-dressed anti-Zionists we all are used to getting exercised about...
...The mother brought suit...
...While the father insisted that American pluralism permitted the child's exposure to various religions, the Court ruled in favor of the mother's argument: if the child is to be raised as a Jew (according to the promise), he must be made to feel secure as a Jew...
...The equivalent for the U.S...
...That means, of course, the West Bank...
...Interesting, but who are we to talk?—In 1976, 642 people made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) from Great Britain...
...When it rains.—At UCLA, Jewish student groups include the Jewish Feminist Coalition, the Student Pro-Falasha Committee, the Free Jewish University, the Zionist Students' Organization, the Jewish Union, Hillel, Ha'am, Speakers' Bureau, Breira, Dav-ka, The Jewish Dormies, Westwood Free Minyan, Westwood Bayit, the Jewish Arts Committee, Israel Students Organization, Chug Aliyah, Hamag-shimim, and a gourmet group, Rodents Scholars (also known as "Jews for Cheeses...
...Damages for libel were recently awarded to members of the Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace from the Sephardi Council, which had accused its own former president Eliahu Eliachar (honorary chairman of the Peace Council) of consorting with "anti-Zionists...
...Ah, America.—A recent court case on the Eastern Shore of Maryland*—not generally regarded as a hotbed of philosemitism— dealt with the following matter: a Jewish girl had married a gentile...
...What kind of a job is that for a you know who?—The State Department's new Chief of Protocol is Evan S. Dobelle (Bar Mitzvah, 1958, Temple Israel, West Palm Beach), former president of his B'nai B'rith Lodge in Pittsfield, Mass...
Vol. 2 • April 1977 • No. 6
