An American Sourcebook

MICHAEL E. STAUB, Editor

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Waltham, Massachusetts

Published by

University Press of New England

Hanover and London

SUB Gottingen 7 217 846 386

2005 A 9605 CONTENTS

Introduction xv

1. GOING SOUTH 1 Michael Walzer, "A Cup of Coffee and a Seat" 3 Betty Alschuler, "Notes from the American Revolution—1962" 12 Albert Vorspan, "The Freedom Rides" 19 Richard L. Rubenstein, "The Rabbis Visit Birmingham" 23 Seymour Siegel, "Pilgrimage to Selma" 31

2. AT HOME (ALMOST) IN AMERICA 35 Shad Polier, "Kennedy's Impact on American Freedom" 37 Jewish Frontier, "The Pity of It: An Editorial" 40 Arthur Hertzberg, "America is Galut" 42 American Jewish Congress, "The Fourth Dialogue in : The Challenge of Jewish Youth" 46 Detroit Jewish News, "Sandy Koufax, an American Hero" 50

3. LIVING WITH $1 Lucy S. Dawidowicz, "Boy Meets Girl in Warsaw Ghetto" 53 Marie Syrkin, "Hannah Arendt: The Clothes of the Empress" 58 Steven S. Schwarzschild, Emil L. Fackenheim, and George Steiner, "Jewish Values in the Post-Holocaust Future: A Symposium" 67 , "Disaster" 78 Alfred Kazin, "Living with the Holocaust" 81

4. BLACK-JEWISH RELATIONS 87 Joachim Prinz, " 'America Must Not Remain Silent...'" 90 Myron M. Fenster, "The Princeton Plan Comes to Jackson Heights" 92 Albert Vorspan, "Ten Ways Out for Tired Liberals" 99 Abraham Joshua Heschel, "Religion and Race" 105 Leslie A. Fiedler, Arthur Hertzberg, and Paul Jacobs, "Negro-Jewish Relations in America: A Symposium" 108 Irving Howe, "In This Moment of Grief" 116 Rabbi Bernard Weinberger, "The Negro and the (Orthodox) Jew" 118 5. THE STRUGGLE FOR SOVIET JEWRY 121 Judd L. Teller, "American Jews and Soviet Anti-Semitism" 123 , "Fear and Heroism: A Visit with Russian Jews" 128 Erich Goldhagen, "Soviet Jewry: Range of Repression" 130 Student Struggle For Soviet Jewry, " 'I Am My Brother's Keeper'" 134

6. THE JEWISH STAKE IN VIETNAM 137 Albert Vorspan, "Vietnam and the Jewish Conscience" 140 Arthur J. Lelyveld, "Peace: Jewish Imperatives" 144 Michael Wyschogrod, "Peace: The Real Imperatives: A Letter to Arthur J. Lelyveld" 147 Meir Kahane, "The Jewish Stake in Vietnam" 150 Mike Masch, "Anti-War Marchers Turn Out En Masse in Washington" 153 "Jewish People's Peace Treaty" 157 Balfour Brickner, "Vietnam and the Jewish Community" 160

7. AFTER THE SIX-DAY WAR 165 M. Jay Rosenberg, "My Evolution as a Jew" 167 Steven S. Schwarzschild, "On the of Jewish Survival" 173 Sharon Rose, "Zionism in the Middle East" 180 Balfour Brickner, "My Zionist Dilemmas" 184

8. HOW JEWISH is IT? 189 Norman Mailer, "A Program for the Nation" 192 Philip Roth, "Writing about Jews" 196 Leslie Fiedler, "The Jewish Intellectual and Jewish Identity" 209 Susan Sontag, "What's Happening to America" 213 Allen Ginsberg, "Witness for the Defense at the Conspiracy Trial" 221

9. ON JEWISH RADICALS AND RADICAL JEWS 229 M. Jay Rosenberg, "To Jewish Uncle Toms" 232 Jewish Liberation Project, "Editorial" 237 David Weissman, "Radicals Invade Federation, Glue 200 Mezuzahs to Doors" 239 Abbie Hoffman et al., "At the Chicago Conspiracy Trial" 240 "Radical Zionist Manifesto" 246 Aviva Cantor Zuckoff, "Oppression of Amerika's Jews" 248 Jonathan Goldin and Morris U. Schappes, "Dialogue with a Radical Jewish Student" 256 Brooklyn Bridge Collective, "We Are Coming Home" 262 Zvi Lowenthal and Jonathan Braun, "An Interview with Meir Kahane" 264 Steve Cohen, "The JDL: Politics of Jewish Experience" 268 10. THE MAKING OF A JEWISH COUNTERCULTURE 273 Balfour Brickner, "Notes on a Freedom Seder" 276 Bill Novak, "The Making of a Jewish Counter Culture" 282 Stephen C. Lerner, "Ramah and Its Critics" 287 Jerry D. Barach, "The Chavura: Blend of Chaos, Tranquility" 295 Mike Tabor, "Young Jews Discover Their True Forebears" 297

11. THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION 301 Gay, "Rabbi Conducts Jewish Gay Service" 303 Martha Shelley, "Gay is Good" 305 Jewish Post and Opinion, "Rabbi Bans Hot Pants, See-Through Blouses" 309 Dr. Morris Mandel, "Problems in Human Emotions" 310 Jewish Post and Opinion, "Fun in the Bedroom Is the Jewish View" 312 Helen Cohen, "The Games Singles Play" 314

12. JEWISH WOMEN AND FEMINISM 317 Betty Friedan, "A Comfortable Concentration Camp?" 320 Brooklyn Bridge Collective, "Jewish Women: Life Force of a Culture?" 325 Rachel Adler, "The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman" 328 Paula E. Hyman, "The Other Half: Women in the Jewish Tradition" 333 Ezrat Nashim, "Jewish Women Call for Change" 338 Shirley Frank, "The Population Panic" 340

13. SELECTIONS FROM THE FIRST JEWISH CATALOG 349 Richard Siegel, Michael Strassfeld, and Sharon Strassfeld, "Introduction" 351 Rabbi Burt Jacobson and the Editors, "Blueprint for a Havurah" 354 Rabbi Zalman Schachter, "A First Step: A Devotional Guide" 359 Arthur Waskow, "How to Bring Mashiah" 364

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 367