Notes & News
NOTES & NEWS MOMENT Magazine Mailed to Refuseniks in the Spirit of Glasnost The November and December issues of moment have been sent by registered airmail to 36 Soviet refuseniks. These were the...
...They don't like it by any means, but they are just sick and tired of this whole issue and are totally fed up with the Palestinians for missing every chance they had...
...In the 1950s there was an easing of the quota, in 1964 mandatory attendance at chapel was abolished, and finally, in 1969 when women were admitted to Princeton, minority recruitment began and the entire composition of the student body changed...
...As usual at such gatherings, a large exhibit hall displayed the manifold products and services likely to be of interest to the attendees...
...The following is a list of additional donors: Rabbi Jon Adland, Lexington, KT Stephen and Barbara Bailie, Indianapolis, IN Azar and Lucinda Ben-David, San Francisco, CA Dr...
...I assure you that if the Palestine problem were settled tomorrow on almost any terms, the Arabs would just give a sigh of relief...
...Yet on January 8, 1988, Harold Shapiro will be installed as the first Jewish president of Princeton University, and James O. Freedman is now the first Jewish president of Dartmouth College...
...In addition, hi-tech aptitudes are in demand and today's corporations are eager to use talent wherever they find it...
...The members of the U.S...
...moment has not been sent through the mail as far as we know, but U.S...
...The names of refuseniks were selected from lists provided to moment by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ...
...Friedman quoted an Arab writer from Lebanon, "The truth is the Arabs don't hate Israel anymore—they should but they don't...
...If, however, the Soviet government refuses to deliver the magazine, further steps will be taken to appeal this decision and to press the Soviet government to make delivery possible...
...In the past it has been difficult for moment to reach Soviet readers...
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...Presently, the student population is between 15 and 20 percent Jewish...
...Barney Frank (D-Mass...
...Jews as University Presidents Princeton University's Jewish alumni used to say that it would be easier for a Jew to be elected president of the United States than for a Jew to be appointed president of Princeton, and the same might have been said about Dartmouth College...
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...But this absurd policy was not followed with ruthless consistency...
...Sometimes, however, copies of moment were confiscated by customs officials...
...This House committee has been studying Soviet governmental interference in U.S...
...These were the first copies of a year's subscription to moment, donated by readers and members of the U.S...
...Jews make up a high percentage of the faculty—between 25 and 35 percent—and all of Princeton's academic officers are Jews, including the provost, dean of the college and dean of faculty...
...A privately owned, for-profit magazine for Jewish children, Shofar, was permitted to exhibit...
...MOMENT asked if, in lieu of a booth, a subscription brochure could be included in the kit given to the delegates...
...The board of trustees is responsible for appointing the university president...
...Feld gives much credit to former president Bowen for the improvement of the quality of Jewish life at Princeton...
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...mail to the Soviet Union in violation of the Helsinki Accords...
...One category of merchandise was barred from the exhibit, however, although there was more than ample room for additional booths in the mammoth exhibit hall at the luxurious Hyatt Regency Hotel...
...Princeton, like many other American academic institutions, used to have quotas limiting minority group admissions Up until 1948, only 18 Jews were allowed per class...
...According to Feld, the board represents, for the most part, corporate executives...
...Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y...
...Policy forbade it, however...
...Princeton has a kosher dining service, and during a food service workers' strike, Bowen personally made arrangements for the students who keep kosher to be able to get their kosher meals...
...and Mrs Marshall Gottsegen, New Orleans, LA Adam H. Herzig, Penn Valley, PA Rabbi Howard Lifshitz, Long Grove, IL Roberta S. Limor, Nashville, TN Mr...
...Henry Waxman (D-Calif...
...Congress who donated the first subscriptions are: Representatives Dante B. Fascell (D-Fla...
...Arabs Totally Fed Up With Palestinians According to an assessment by New York Times correspondent Thomas L. Friedman, reporting from Amman, Jordan, "The PLO lost a lot of its romantic appeal in Arab eyes after it quit Beirut, Lebanon, during the Israeli invasion in 1982...
...Bowen was the first president of Princeton who was neither a minister nor a son of a minister, and who had not been a Princeton undergraduate...
...At the Arab summit conference in Amman last November, Yasir Arafat was the only Arab leader King Hussein did not bother to greet at the airport Members of various Arab delegations to the conference made it clear to the Times correspondent that the discussion of Israel at the conference was "more out of habit than of immediate concern...
...Somehow, the policy did not apply to Hamakor Judaica, Inc., a for-profit mail order dealer whose $5 discount coupon was included in the kit...
...Jerome Berkowitz, Brick Town, NJ Bertram S. Bermar, Palm Beach, FL Steve Bien, Jay, ME Sue and Ned Bloomfeld, Tuscan, AZ Lori Gross Chipkin, New York, NY Dr...
...This is not the first time that a Jew has been considered for the Princeton post Fifteen years ago, the final candidates for Princeton's presidency were William Bowen, who was appointed, and Aaron Lemonick, currently dean of faculty, a Jew...
...Jack Kemp (R-N.Y...
...UAHC policy barred the exhibition of books and magazines (except, of course, UAHC and affiliated publications...
...Congress who support moment's Soviet subscription efforts...
...He is among the righteous gentiles," says Feld...
...Lindenbaum, Jackson, NJ Joel N. Lippman, Buffalo, NY Paul and Renee Mansheim, Norfolk, VA Dr...
...In all fairness, we should note that the United Synagogue of America (the Conservative counterpart of the UAHC) happily made available an exhibit booth to MOMENT at USA's November convention at the Concord, Kiamesha, New York...
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...Daniel P. Mass, Chicago, IL Lisa Rosenfeld, Newton, MA R. G. Silten, Pomona, CA Adam H. Warga, Eastchester, NY Dr...
...TomLantos (D-Calif...
...Each of our readers who purchased a gift subscription received the name and address of the Soviet recipient and was encouraged to contact that person directly...
...So were El Al airlines, Kupritz Art Carpets, Art Auctions, Inc., and Tru-check Computer Systems...
...It was generally agreed that reading was not dangerous to the health or minds of the usually well-informed delegates and Reform Jewish leaders...
...and Senators Howard M. Met-zenbaum (D-Ohio) and Paul Simon (D-111) and his staff...
...No one seemed sure what was the basis for the prohibition against books and magazines...
...their choice of Shapiro reflects the changing attitudes of corporate America...
...Corporations are now subject to antidiscrimination laws and business people are wary of making distinctions based on religious beliefs...
...moment has been asked by the House of Representatives Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, to keep the committee informed as to whether the magazines reach their recipients...
...We are hoping that the new policy of glasnost will make these subscriptions possible...
...Ronald J. Werrin, West Chester, PA Dumb Rules and Playing Favorites at the UAHC General Assembly More than 3,000 delegates and Reform Jewish leaders gathered in Chicago from October 29 to November 3, 1987, for.the 59th General Assembly of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC...
...If the Soviet government allows moment to pass through the mail service uninterrupted, this will mark an important change from past policy...
...James H. Scheuer (D-N.Y...
...visitors often brought copies with them, to the delight of the refusenik recipients...
...Rabbi Edward Feld, director of the B'nai B'nth Hillel Foundation at Princeton, told MOMENT that it is not at all surprising to him that Shapiro was selected...
...William Korey, director of policy research for B'nai B'rith International and a Soviet affairs expert, called moment's project a "genuine test of glasnost" and a "significant and creative example of the cultural bridge-building that is at the heart of both the Helsinki Accords and the general struggle linking peace to human rights...
...moment magazine, however, which is owned by Jewish Educational Ventures, Inc., a charitable corporation, was denied an exhibit booth...
Vol. 12 • January 1988 • No. 10
