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FORUM Outraged HUC Prof Denounces moment As "Outsider" In your review of the last annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies ("Dull, Dull, Dull," March 1989, p. 10) you scold a number of...
...Shame on moment's Treatment Of Howard Squadron As a charter subscriber to MOMENT who has loved ever morsel contained therein, I can't for the life of me understand why you would have stooped to an Enquirer-lype "expose" of the sort that you did of Howard Squadron ("Connections: Howard Squadron's Wedtech Troubles," March 1989...
...Squadron is another question...
...In our short telephone interview with Mr...
...Despite positive indications, our Austrian acquaintances informed us that much anti-Semitism remains in Austria, especially in the provinces: The smaller the town and the fewer its Jewish inhabitants, the higher the prejudice...
...Although this letter castigated us for our unfairness, it also served to reassure us because the factual inaccuracies Mr...
...My contribution to Jewish Studies and other fields is also measurable by my books, articles, reviews, occasional notes, confidential refereeing of journal submissions, various academic committee assignments, and journal editing...
...Please transfer my subscription to another person here who is refusenik also and who took part of my communal work...
...Our students have no doubt heard a teacher state that during much of Israel's existence the Arab nations surrounding it called for its destruction...
...By comparison, this past year's meeting was dull.—Ed...
...Thousands of years later, when the human race became weaker, the rabbis of the Talmud (the Oral Law), instructed us, in the name of Moses, that since we can no longer visually distinguish between menstrual flow and zava flow, all women must count (at least) five days for the menstrual flow (and more if it extends longer), plus seven clean days...
...However, in contradistinction to David, I was aware at the time of these happenings of a minority of Austrians who opposed Hitler and/or remained loyal to their Jewish friends...
...This article naturally went into far more detail concerning these legal issues than did MOMENT'^ article...
...You are free, of course, to criticize what you see and hear...
...Essentially all of Austria's 300,000 Jews were driven into exile or annihilated...
...In addition, I chaired one section...
...Pollard, intifada, territory for peace, etc...
...To what end...
...Then the president of our hosting society thanked those of us visitors who had helped to train young Austrian immunologists...
...We can be certain that the Soviets— and possibly other powers—have similar weapons because allusions to this technology, the miniaturization of atomic weapons, were made a few years ago in an article on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times by Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's Americanologist...
...Unfortunately, Mr...
...Squadron and his law firm in Wedtech was of sufficiently broad community interest that it was also widely reported in the general press...
...it is read cover-to-cover...
...Or do we report only when Jews win prizes...
...Can a movement that has fallen so far short of its own publicized goals and standards here do any better in Israel...
...Squadron is a lawyer, the legal community has a special interest in his Wedtech connections, which were therefore described and explored in a major article in a leading legal periodical, the National Law Journal, with special attention to, the legal questions involved in Mr...
...Finally, let me put it to you bluntly...
...The opening speaker, Vienna's Commissioner of Public Health, deplored the wholesale dismissals of staff at the University following the Nazi occupation of 1938...
...His name is Boris Kagan...
...Squadron and his law firm's representation of Wedtech...
...Leon W. Wells, Ph.D...
...With hindsight, I agree, he should have gone there...
...During my six days there, I met or heard about many Austrians who were actively fighting against anti-Semitism...
...Eric Rozenman Fairfax, Virginia Hatred of Arabs Was Not Taught The letter of Jeff Levinsky (Forum, March 1989, p. 57) states that he was "definitely taught" hatred of Arabs during his Hebrew and Sunday school years at Tifereth Israel Synagogue...
...But they have a very low living standard, much lower than the pre-war German or French Jews and even the poor Polish Jews...
...This change has come about through the efforts of activists with good will in their hearts...
...Thus, with people as well-intentioned as our Austrian hosts to fight against anti-Semitism, positive results are certain to follow...
...Squadron's side because Mr...
...You then remarked that those holding such a view must have their "head in the sand" if they think "a settlement can be reached in the near term without the participation of the PLO...
...Teller omits to mention that this technology has already been leapfrogged...
...Lawrence M. Reisman New York, New York Edward Teller's Program Is the Path of Death Please cancel my subscription to MOMENT...
...I do not recall where or when MOMENT was elected critic and watchdog for any of our presumed scholarly sins of omission...
...Schorsch has often noted the huge gap between the standard of observance preached by his Seminary and what is practiced by the membership of the synagogues his graduates serve...
...Indeed, David warmly offers his friendship to the man who invited him to Austria, Dr...
...I did several translations from the magazines for our Jewish publications here...
...Indeed, the year before last, he also reviewed the AJS meeting for MOMENT— favorably, that time ("A Scholarly Feast," March 1988, p.4...
...John Murray Cuddihy Hunter College New York, New York The wrilei is the author of The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity (Basic Books, 1974...
...A spirit of reconciliation was evident in the welcome given us by the mayor of Vienna during a banquet at which he hosted us at the Town Hall, bedecked with banners for its exhibition "Vienna 1938...
...The word tikvah (hope) does not appear in the Torah...
...Likewise, my father's gentile law-office partner behaved in exemplary fashion...
...When a chemist who is Jewish wins the Nobel Prize, it becomes a Jewish story...
...He himself has characterized the Conservative movement as being made up of observant rabbis and non-observant laymen...
...In the Talmud, though, the required abstinence even for menstruation is 12 days—five days for the menstrual period plus seven "clean" days thereafter...
...Indeed, the involvement of Mr...
...Or the peace prize won by President Arias for Central America...
...When we buy a computer, we get an instruction book...
...law as far as I know it...
...Does Schorsch think that his movement [Conservative Judaism] can reconnect Israelis to Judaism...
...If that is true, then when a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations becomes involved in Wedtech— and especially when that involvement grew out of associations made in his Jewish communal woik—that loo is a Jewish story...
...Squadron, he insisted that we could quote what he said only if we first cleared it with him and that we must also agree not to report that he declined to answer a question...
...His was not the majority's viewpoint...
...He fought for Austria as an officer during World War I, and suffered through three years of imprisonment in Siberia...
...to define at least Jewish refugees in this manner, but, as a matter of policy, as I will show, it would not be wise»fco do so...
...Also being a cancer immunologist, I know David professionally...
...Sadly, most Austrians really did welcome Hitler and adopted his fanatical anti-Semitism...
...The price we pay to live on this level is that close to 50 percent of our time is devoted to the spiritual...
...Surely after the many years of devoted service to the Jewish people, Howard deserves better than to be the subject of innuendo and all sorts of nastiness...
...Schorsch and other senior officials have freely admitted, in these pages and elsewhere, that there is a lack of commitment to observance on the part of most of the Conservative laity...
...Edward Teller's remarks on Israel's need for a strong defense against her enemies...
...Later, for composing the Austrian mining laws, he was awarded the highest civilian decoration, knight of the Austrian order of merit— the same medal worn by the Count in The Sound of Muiic...
...We at the Museum of the Mikveh are preparing new programs that we are certain will very soon cause the Jewish people willingly and strictly to observe the laws of the mikvah...
...I continue to respect him and I admire him and am appalled at your article...
...Well, I'm afraid—though it's not a proper word for the case, I think—that from now on I won't do translations from the MOMENT magazines here, because I got permission to leave for Israel at last after almost ten years of waiting...
...Is it a "Jewish" story...
...Forster represents, David makes that but a slim possibility...
...arsenal—-a nuclear bomb so small that it can be carried in the backpack of one soldier...
...But if you do feel the itch to find fault, why not ask your fellow publishers and editors in the field of Anglo-Jewish journalism why it is that none of them ever feels it important enough to cover AJS meetings...
...Then there is no hope for the Jewish future...
...Despite the medal, the Count and his family had to escape from Austria—as did my father...
...Harold Freeman Little Neck, New York Miniaturized Nuclear Weapons Render ATBM Outmoded Nobody can deny the validity of Dr...
...But our children also learn that every human being and nation has a responsibility to seek peace and pursue it rather than to work and pray for the destruction of those who disagree with us...
...make an exception for Jewish refuseniks to its usual refugee policy is bad policy for both Israel and the United States...
...For shame...
...To condemn rather than to glory in the fact that the AJS has reached the age of 20 is a surprising reaction...
...It took a bit of courage...
...If we disobey G-d's rules, for a short moment of doubtful pleasure, we suffer for the rest of our lives...
...1 was surprised you wrote and published (in your "Jewish Establishment" department, too) your piece on Howard Squadron and bob wallach (Democrat and neocon Republican—very even-handed...
...Massachusetts Thank You from a Former Refusenik—and a Plea For a Current Refusenik Thank you for parcels with MOMENT magazines...
...When and why I decide to offer a paper at an academic meeting depends on a number of factors...
...Assumptions that the PLO—for three decades a serious revolutionary movement dedicated to defeating the Zionist enemy—can be part of a peaceful resolution are condescending to the PLO and culturally ethnocentric, assuming that because our side would settle for half a loaf, so would the other guys...
...Squadron charges us with are relatively insignificant—the conditions under which Wallach and Squadron fust met, whether Squadron's relationship with Secretary of Stale George Shultz was independent of Wallach, the exact amount of the fees received by Squadron's firm, the value of the Wedtech stock received by Squadron's firm, the amount of the fees Squadron paid Wallach (we mentioned two numbers...
...While indications are that the fight against anti-Semitism in Austria has now begun in earnest, long-standing prejudice dies hard, and a long battle still lies ahead...
...The name of our program is "Waters of Life," which relates the history of the universe and the Jewish people through the perspective of the mikvah...
...I am referring to the miniaturization of nuclear weapons such as the one now in the U.S...
...it turned out to be the lower one, Squadron says...
...If that were the definition, many thousands if not millions of wonderful, talented people who have come and may come to our shores would have been, and would be, excluded...
...Our closest relatives who remained in Vienna, a family of four, were all eventually murdered except for the daughter, who survived after a long stint in a brothel for soldiers...
...The Creator of Life knows best how we should use life, and the Torah is our book of instructions...
...While my father had every reason to think of himself as a solid citizen, after the Nazi takeover of 1938 he quickly found out that he was mistaken...
...This theme proved to be incorporated into numerous meetings and exhibitions held in Vienna during 1988...
...Israelis who are secular by choice have no need for the token affiliation that characterizes nearly all of the American Conservative Jewish community...
...Forster...
...Can a movement 90 percent of whose affiliated members never come to synagogue except for high holidays expose Israelis to a scintilla (let alone a modicum) of religious vocabulary, study and observance...
...This has been documented in Tom Segev's book, 1949: The First Israelis...
...My presence at the AJS meeting and contribution to its success are also to be seen in the fact that at various sessions I was able to make what I thought were meaningful reactions to a number of papers delivered...
...Squadron...
...Following these introductions, each of the nine expatriates shared poignant memories relating to the occupation of 1938, and talked about their scientific life-work...
...Congratulations on a first-rate periodical...
...I know that in each issue of the MOMENT magazine I can find an article or other material of great interest for me, and not for me only...
...To propose that America make an exception for all the brilliant, talented Russian Jewish refuseniks whom Israel is willing to take in, to put it plainly, is, perhaps, the first real case I am aware of where the interests of Israel are being proposed to be placed above the interests of the United States...
...J. Tennenbaum reported to the* American Jewish Congress in the 1930s that even Egypt and Syria wanted to take in Jews, "but for economic reasons, who would go there...
...Of course, those of us who accepted the invitation had family histories similar to David's...
...Whether MOMENT'* story was fair to Mr...
...Does MOMENT suddenly have a new muckraking image...
...Naturally, we refused to proceed on this basis...
...Squadron, in his wrath, hung up on us...
...Actually, ten immunologists and their spouses were invited, and only David Weiss declined...
...Let me ask you straight out: Who elected you critic of my private decision not to offer a paper...
...My reasons for accepting this invitation were based on perceptions very different from David's...
...I plan to go to Israel in the end of February if everything goes well...
...What he also doesn't say is that the spiritual roots from which most Israelis are severed were clearly Orthodox...
...This is a well known fact...
...The menstrual flow was much shorter, and there was a sharper demarcation between the monthly menstrual flow and the zava flow [non-menstrual bleeding or discharge...
...I did not notice you in the audience on some of those occasions...
...My father and his family, who all perished in the Holocaust, could easily have gone to Palestine before the war as ' 'capitalists," but my grandfather returned from Palestine before the war with malaria...
...Rabbi Ralph P. Kingsley North Miami Beach, Florida Because Mr...
...Othmar Forster, president of the hosting Society, stated that the purpose of our visit on the 50th anniversary of the year 1938 in which Austria had been annihilated as an independent country was to recall those sad days and to remember their victims...
...Essentially, David says that he despises a country which in the past has shown fanatical anti-Semitism, sees little evidence for any recent change, and feels that Austria has yet to own up to its sins...
...I wrote "eventual settlement" intentionally...
...Walter A. Sheldon Lido Beach, New York moment Is the Exception I just want you to know that we at the "Jewish Entertainment Hour" think that MOMENT is" probably the best publication of Jewish interest, bar none...
...When Jews stop using the mikvah, they become assimilated...
...What has made America great, morally and demographically, and will continue to do so, is a policy that welcomes the unwanted of countries of tyranny because they are people who appreciate freedom and have the talent and courage to leave lands of persecution for lands where they can contribute without bias or prejudice for their race, religion or beliefs...
...My view of Austrian history is quite similar to David's...
...Lippman Bodoff Glen Rock, New Jersey Why Jews Didn't Go to Palestine In the 1930s In "If Israel is a Homeland, Can a Refusenik Be a Refugee...
...Next, the Austrian Minister for Science and Research deplored that there had been so little resistance against Nazism and its outrageous abuse of human rights...
...Happily, his article has given me an opportunity to suggest what seems to be a far more positive, constructive and successful approach to anti-Semitism...
...1. Let's start with logic...
...without making a real dual-loyalty issue out of the Russian refusenik situation...
...Israel has enough areas of potential and real disagreement with the U.S...
...Tikvah and mikvah have the same Hebrew root.] Here G-d is giving us a strong hint that there is no hope for the Jewish people without the mikvah...
...Without the mikvah, G-d is no longer the hope of Israel...
...As for head-in-the-sand views, the notion, currently seductive both in the United States and Israel, that because Israel needs peace and because the PLO is the enemy, peace can be made with the PLO ranks near the top...
...I am concerned with the present needs of 10,000 Jews living in Vienna, have followed the recent radical improvement in the attitude of the Catholic church towards Jews, believe in an activist attitude in working for a change towards betterment, and am hopeful that future relationships between Jews and Gentiles can be improved by dialogue and friendship...
...Nor should we forget that we ourselves have a long way to go in avoiding stigmatization of all minorities, and of all conditions of human beings, excluding none...
...Why then do you think it was appropriate to single out this one aspect of my academic life...
...Surely, we must help those who are fighting this battle, and give them all possible encouragement— including our friendship...
...No one should make light of the fact that such meetings do provide an opportunity to meet and talk with old friends, to be introduced to new people, and to see the great variety of new publications that have come into the world...
...I have known Howard Squadron for many years, having worked with him in the American Jewish Congress...
...March 1989), as a matter of logic, law and sound American policy, the answer to the question must be: ' 'Yes, a Jewish refusenik can, nevertheless, be a refugee under American law...
...You are an outsider, a journalist-observer at these meetings...
...I'm ready though to continue my translation work for the Soviet Jewish community in Israel...
...Furthermore, I am an active member of four other academic organizations, all of which claim a strong measure of loyalty for me...
...moment Has Courage I can't tell you how refreshing it is to read a Jewish publication (and I read a good many) that once in a while surprises one...
...In the end, this simply thwarts ou> obtaining material favorable to Mr...
...The Rector of Vienna University related the history of Jewish Nobel Prize winners who had lectured from the same platform which he now occupied, and said that the terrible crimes committed under the Nazis must never happen again...
...Every Jew welcome in Israel (or anywhere else...
...Teller, Israel will be poorly served by relying too much on military means for her survival, even such sophisticated systems as suggested...
...It is not in America's interest ever to take the position that it does not welcome any of these unwanted or victimized people as long as any other country is willing to take them...
...Conservative Judaism Is Not The Answer for Israel's Jews The excerpt from Ismar Schorsch's speech printed in your ''Notes & News" section ("Would Israelis Be Religious...
...Another current Viennese exhibition was entitled "Judaism and Vienna," and featured beautiful ancient Jewish objects used for worship...
...Soon our family was scattered to the four winds...
...My decision to read a paper at a particular meeting is mine and mine alone, and depends on my current work interest, the many demands on my time, the problem of meeting a variety of other deadlines, and the like...
...In the secular world,] the higher our income, the higher our income tax bracket...
...Although I disagree with him, I believe that his clear statement serves a most valuable purpose: It crystallizes the views of too many of my Jewish friends, who share his point of view...
...Squadron had agreed to a telephone interview instead of hanging up on us.—Ed...
...All too often, a hard-line approach can be counterproductive, and hurt those most supportive of us, or those whom we most wish to support...
...At times the problems are passed on to the next generations...
...In the future I recommend that you continue to attend, to look, to listen, and to pat those who deserve a pat on the back...
...I, as many of my friends— Boris Kelman for example—appreciate very much the efforts of the MOMENT magazine, United States Senators and members of the United States House of Representatives and other readers also, in closing gaps between Jewish communities of the United States and Soviet Union...
...His address is: Grazhdansky Prospect, 77, k.3, Apt...
...Herbert H. Paper Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Cincinnati, Ohio The reviewer of the AJS meeting in MOMENT has been reviewing academic conferences for various publications for nearly ten years, including, among others, meetings of the American Academy of Religion, the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, Studiorum Novi Testi-menti Societas and the Near East Archaeological Society, so he has some basis for comparison...
...These included not only our hosts, but also other groups of academics, the city govern, ment of Vienna, and leaders of the Catholic church...
...If Conservatism could work such miracles in Israel were it allowed the same status as Orthodoxy, why can't it do the same here...
...I venture to say that the AJS meeting was on a par with any number of similar occasions in many fields...
...Arnold E Reif Boston University School of Medicine Boston...
...These are the kinds of details that could have been cleared up before the article was printed if Mr...
...Edward Markov Leningrad, USSR Ghengis Cohen Is Not Kosher In your March 1989 Spice Box you mention a kosher Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles called Ghengis Cohen...
...I want to thank especially Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum who took pain to phone me personally to sa> encouraging words of concern during my hard times...
...We were in part pie-vented from giving more of Mr...
...2. As a matter of law, a country may, of course, define refugees as those who are fleeing a country under prescribed circumstances and have no other place to go that is willing to receive them...
...Even we ourselves need to work towards the ideal of the warm acceptance of all humanity...
...3. As an American, I believe that from a policy standpoint America should not limit refugees to those who can't find any other place to go...
...Israel and Rozenman, I am sure, would like the U.S...
...he doesn't say that this was done largely as part of a secular Zionist ideology that was Israeli government policy after 1948...
...Thus, as a matter of logic, refugee status is based on the person's situation as he or she crosses the border of the land from which he or she is fleeing, and not on how many countries are willing to stretch out their hand to such refugees...
...However, by promoting "a short range anti-tactical ballistic missile" defense system ("Israel and the Technological Revolutions of the 21st Century," March 1989) similar to the SDI "shield" suggested for the United States, Dr...
...The symposium at which we participated was held in the ornate Grand, Hall of the Society of Physicians...
...Again, I used the word settlement, not peace, because that is the most that can be achieved in the foreseeable future...
...If a woman experiences non-menstrual bleeding, however, she must abstain for that period plus seven days after the bleeding ends (Leviticus 15:28...
...Squadron has an unusual—in our experience unique—propensity to try to control how the press—or at least MOMENT—presents what he says...
...FORUM Outraged HUC Prof Denounces moment As "Outsider" In your review of the last annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies ("Dull, Dull, Dull," March 1989, p. 10) you scold a number of us for not reading papers...
...Rozenman is correct that the issue is not freedom of choice for Russian refugees, although I believe they should have that freedom...
...Where were you other years when I did read a paper...
...I chose my words precisely...
...Until then, Israel in any boundaries will represent a threat to its neighbors...
...Please give my sincere gratitude to everybody who found time and money to help us Soviet Jews to be a little closer to understanding of our Jewish identity...
...Remember the Nobel Peace Prize shared by Kissinger and Le Due Tho for Vietnam...
...MOMENT is the exception...
...I see no reason why America should give up its moral and practical concerns when Jewish refugees are involved just because Israel would prefer that they settle in Israel, and for that reason I believe it is dangerous for Israel to press America, and for Jewish Americans (or American Jews) to press America, to do so...
...If it were, there would be no issue...
...Thus, any suggestion that the U.S...
...The issue is what is and what should be American refugee policy in general, and whether Jewish refugees should be an exception to this policy...
...Suppose a country is persecuting a minority, or ' those of a particular political view, and they wish to leave...
...Squadron sent us a letter which he said we could publish only if we agreed to make no editorial response, such as we are making here...
...I did not write about reaching a settlement "in the near term" because I do not believe that one can be...
...How many in the 1930s wanted to go to Palestine, even with free admission...
...I view Austrians not as composed of a single type with common views, but as a dynamic mixture of peoples of diverse ethnic backgrounds and various ever-changing opinions...
...And I am entirely free to tell you that you really do not know what you are talking about...
...would ipso facto cease to be a refugee, and there would be no need for Rozenman's article...
...My father was born in Vienna, as I was...
...During 41 years in the USA, I have seen a dramatic change for the better in race relationships of all sorts, not least between Jews and gentiles...
...I'm sure not everyone was pleased...
...If, say, six countries wish to take in such refugees, it would seem according to the Israeli and Rozenman view that none could take them in as refugees because one (or more) other country was willing to take them in too...
...Please be informed that this restaurant is NOT kosher and has never represented itself as such...
...The word mikvah does...
...That is not the definition of refugee under U.S...
...Schorsch says that the majority of Israelis are severed from their spiritual roots...
...I am aware of a long history both of anti-Semitism and of anti-Protestantism in this predominantly Catholic country...
...G-d commanded us to live on a higher plane of sanctity and purity [than other peoples...
...We Jews are not allowed to use our entire time for pleasure...
...Give us a break...
...Closter, New Jersey Why I Accepted the Invitation David Weiss Declined David Weiss, a distinguished cancer immunologist of Austrian ancestry, explained in the March 1989 issue of MOMENT ("The Significance of Gestures") why he turned down an invitation from the Austrian Society of Allergy and Immunology to attend their meeting for prominent "Old Austrian" immunologists...
...As to each issue, we tried to give the evidence and arguments on both sides...
...Without having discussed this with anyone else, I want to write you my reaction, since you include my name among those "prominent" scholars whom you named...
...We receive many newspapers and magazines, most of which we leaf through...
...Everyone prefers to be in the high income tax brackets, because that means higher income...
...I find it strange that this year you were moved to criticism for my not reading a paper...
...Rabbi Aaron S. Gold Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal Lois Garber, Educational Director Tifereth Israel Synagogue San Diego, California Without the Mikvah, There Is No Hope In connection with the article on mik-vaot in your March 1989 issue ("Family Purity—A Fresh Look at the Mikvah"), I wish to make the following comments: [In the Torah, the period of sexual abstinence in connection with the menstrual period is seven days (Leviticus 15:19...
...And finally, to label the last AJS meeting as "dull" requires a monumental amount of chutzpah...
...March 1989), Eric Rozenman states, "Had a Jewish state existed in Palestine before World War II, many of those who later perished in the Holocaust would have found a refuge there, having been denied it elsewhere . . . ." Nonsense...
...Beacon Press, 1987...
...When Arab states begin to treat their own citizens the way Israel does its people, then the cultural-political foundation to support Arab-Israeli peace will exist...
...With all the respect due to such an eminent scientist as Dr...
...This fascinating documentary on the evils of Nazism in Austria was put together by members of the Austrian Resistance Against the Nazis...
...359, Leningrad 195257, USSR...
...His program is the path of death for Israel—and the rest of the world...
...Rabbi imanuel Ravad Founder and Executive Director Museum of the Mikveh Brooklyn, New York...
...If we do not follow the instructions, we cannot benefit from it, and we abuse the machine...
...You quoted this sentence from the editorial: "Just as the uprising by Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip began without the PLO, so will any eventual settlement between them and Israel...
...I think I've paid my dues in the various fields in which I am involved...
...Our letter of invitation from Dr...
...the pertinent debate is over what changes in the status quo will leave Israel stronger...
...Why?] When we received the Torah at Sinai, humans were stronger and healthier...
...We are in the high 50 percent bracket, because of the high level of sanctity that is demanded of us...
...Naturally, we refused to agree to this condition, so we cannot print his letter...
...There is, however, a glatl kosher Chinese restaurant called Peking Tarn in Los Angeles that has been open for several years now on Pico Boulevard Murray E Wolfe Tarzana, California Negotiating with the PLO Is Condescending to It In your March 1989 Notes & News section ("AIPAC's Head-in-the Sand Department"), you cite my last editorial as editor of Near East Report, as an example of a "head-in-the-sand" approach to Arab-Israeli peace-making...
...It has a double meaning—(1) hope and (2) the waters in which Jews immerse themselves for the purpose of sanctity and purity...
...I myself found it interesting and challenging in those areas I attended...
...So have all the others whose names you list...
...March 1989, p. 10) would be offensive if it weren't ludicrous...
...After the article appeared, Mr...
...How will the sophisticated devices incorporated in the ATBM and SDI systems, capable of discovering missile launchings within seconds, detect these small nuclear bombs which can be smuggled over any border—"hand-delivered"—and placed in strategic locations to be detonated at will by an enemy...
...In my own case, having lost my mother when I was ten, my Austrian governess acted as surrogate mother to me while I was still in Vienna, and remained utterly loyal to us throughout those difficult years...
...Gary Wagner New York, New York Logic, Law and Policy Refute Rozenman's Case While I sympathize emotionally with Eric Rozenman's comments on the issue: ' 'If Israel Is a Homeland, Can a Refusenik Be a Refugee...
...In my reading of many of these weeklies and monthlies, I do not recall ever seeing a reference to this one scholarly organization that has achieved some prideful status in Jewish Studies...
...Yet, by refusing to make peace with the institution that Dr...
...Let us pray there will be no such peace, no such prize, awarded over Israel's head...
...I will not support a magazine that features an article by Edward Teller ("Israel and the Technological Revolutions of the 21st Century," March 1989), whose only proposals for peace have been for more and more nuclear weapons...
...Rozenman mentions Ethiopian Jews...
...Only during the remainder of the time may we mix the spiritual with the worldly...
...In these circumstances, a settlement between a strong Israel and a comparatively weak Palestine Arab entity and a divided Arab world might be sustainable...
...If you admit that sex, like the rest of our life, is a gift from G-d, then the Giver of the gift has every right to prescribe the way and time we will use His gift...
...as he waltzes around the veranda of his palatial home with the children's governess...
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