Satanic Verses, should be
published in Israel.
As Michael Handelzalts, a
leading Israeli publishing
reporter, says in Romano's ar-
ticle, The extreme left says
you shouldn't publish it so as
not to offend the Muslims.
Selman Rushdie:
'Whipping is okay.'
The moderate left says you
should publish it because
there's an issue of freedom of
speech at stake. The right-
wing says, 'You see, those
Muslims, how they behave! Of
course, we condemn the book,
which is offensive, but it just
shows you what we have to
deal with here with those
Islamic maniacs!' The
religious rights claims that
Rushdie shouldn't have writ-
ten that offensive book. But,
of course, killing him is carry-
ing it a bit too far. Whipping
him is okay."
Author Struggles
With Her Roots
In Prague
In Prague last September to
write an article for Conde
Nast Traveler, novelist Joan
Juliet Buck did more than see
the sights. She struggled with
her own Jewishness.
Taken on a tour of the city
by the former head of the
Czech council of Jewish
religious communities, Buck
saw the Jewish Town Hall
(where Kafka once lectured),
the 700-year-old Altneuschul
(where the seat of Rabbi Low,
who created the mythical
Golem, is "respectfully" unoc-
cupied), the State Jewish
Museum and a Jewish
cemetery where, writes Buck,
"because the headstones are
jammed together, and tumbl-
ing . . . you can believe
anything; you can believe
that Prague Jews were buried
*standing up, to make more
room. The dead have no room
to breath, but they don't have
to."
Then she is shown an ex-
hibit of paintings done by
Jewish children at the Nazi
concentration camp of
Terezin, 35 miles from
Prague: "Yellow suns against
gray skies, in the poster
paints that are a part of every
child."
Back at her hotel, Buck
asks herself, "Do I want to be
a Jew? Do I want to be so near
to that . . . ? The dead who
can't breathe, and the
children — how do you laugh
at that? How can time make
that pretty?"
For Yom Kippur, Buck went
to services at the
Altneuschul. In the women's
room, where she sat, the rab-
bi's daughter "went from lap
to lap . . . The women smiled
at the child, cuddled her, ex-
changed gossip, and glared at
the stranger: me." Then,
finally, came the sound of the
shofar, "bringing in a clean
new year."
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ZOA Attacks
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"relentless criticism" of
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Jewish state to "surrender"
to the Palestinian intifada
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Palestinian brothers . . . still
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