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V
anity Fair is often all
things to all people
especially to people
who are rich or famous — or
who aspire to be.
Its current issue shows the
breadth of its swath: from
the left, comes PLO sup-
porter, actress Vanessa
Redgrave; from the right,
comes Rabbi Moshe Lev-
inger, whom the magazine
calls "a fanatic willing to
martyr himself for the right
of the Jews to rebuild an an-
cient civilization on the oc-
cupied lands of the West
Bank."
In his profile of Ms.
Redgrave, Stephen Schiff
notes that "for nearly two
decades," she has poured
"much of her money . . . into
hard-left causes," including
"unstinting support for the
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization."
For much of that time, Ms.
Redgrave has outraged
many Jews. On Oscar night
in 1978, when she won an
Oscar for Julia, protestors
from the Jewish Defense
League burned her in effigy
outside the Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion in Los
Angeles. In her acceptance
speech, she congratulated
academy members for refus-
ing "to be intimidated by a
small bunch of Zionist
hoodlums whose behavior is
an insult to the stature of
Jews all over the world."
Although, says Mr. Schiff,
the phrase "Jewish
hoodlums" "branded her as
an anti-Semite," her ex-
husband, director Tony
Richardson, says, "She's
totally unrealistic in her at-
titude: when she says
`Zionism' she thinks she
isn't talking about Jews. But
there isn't a single bit of anti-
Semitic blood in Vanessa."
Mr. Schiff agrees.
"What anti-Semite," he
asks, "would present the
first appearance outside the
Soviet Union of the Moscow
Jewish Shalom Theater, as
Redgrave did in 1989, would
bring the Moscow Jewish
Musical Theater to New
York (in the same year), or
would speak out, as I have
heard her do, against Soviet
anti-Semitism?"
The profile of Gush
Emunim leader Rabbi
Levinger was penned by
Robert I. Friedman, who re-
cently wrote a book about
Meir Kahane and is now
working on one about the
West Bank settlers' move-
ment.
"No one in Israel has a
reputation for being pushier
than Levinger," writes Mr.
Friedman. Even the rabbi's
own attorney calls him "a
very difficult client."
"Many Israelis," said Mr.
Friedman, consider the
rabbi "the direct
descendent" of Elazar ben
Yair, the leader at the Dead
Sea fortress of Masada who
had ordered his 900
followers to commit suicide
rather than endure Roman
captivity.
"Zionism is mysticism,"
the rabbi told Mr. Friedman.
It "does not think in rational
terms . . . but in terms of
divine commandments.
What matters only is God's
promise to Abraham as
recorded in the Book of
Genesis." ❑
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Reporter Lloyd Grove at
Federal Election Commis-
the Washington Post's Style
sion decision about whether
section deserves a raise:
AIPAC had violated federal
Anyone who can get top-
campaign spending limits,
staffers at AIPAC to talk on-
Toby Dershowitz, AIPAC's
the-record is a master of per-
director of media liaison,
suasion. And anyone who
writes a 150-inch story about I tried to persuade Andrew
the pro-Israel lobby that ' Silow Carroll, the editor of
doesn't make the eyes glaze . the Washington Jewish Week
not to assign the paper's
over deserves at least an
crack reporter, Larry
autographed copy of The
Cohler, to the story. She
Elements of Style.
claimed that Mr. Cohler's
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Mr. Grove's story:
been inaccurate.
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