A Jewish Professor's Political Punditry: Fifty-Plus Years of Published Commentary by Ron Rubin

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391 “26/11,” 373 “365-days-a-year war,” Israel’s, 119 770 (Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn), 199–200, 204, 210. See also Crown Heights; Hasidim/Hasidism; Lubavitcher; rebbes 1543 Renaissance Hebrew Bible, 352 1965 U.N. convention on “Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination ,” 251, 260 1967 Six Day War: aftermath in Egypt, 76, 81; changes U.S. view of Egyptian foreign policy, 76; connections with liberals, 162, 169; heroes for Jewish youth, 180; Israeli and foreign press, 140–41, 152; Israel’s information/propaganda program, 115, 116, 124, 125, 137, 138; removes Israel’s “victim” status, xxvii, 115, 116, 137, 162; Soviet-Israel diplomatic ties cut, 132, 237; transformations in Israel after, 131, 134; U.S. unprepared, 82; USIA activities in Israel during, 86, 87. See also Fulbright , J. William 1982 Peace for Galilee campaign, 155 Abram, Morris B., 250–51, 253 Abrams, Robert, 210 Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry (Academic Committee), 232–33 academics, 143, 165, 232, 265 activists/activism: groups supporting Soviet Jewry, 233–35; lacking in Jewish community and organizations , 178, 183; rabbis as, 204–7; yarmulka-wearing, 174. See also Jewish Defense League; Jewish youth; “Refusenik”; Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Ad Hoc Commission on Soviet Jews (1966), 231–32 affirmative-action programs, 170, 187, 330 Afnan, Badia, 247 Africa(ns): and Aswan, 66, 70; correspondents at U.N., 19, 22, 24; Israel compared with South, xxvii; Israeli Network B, 129; Obama and “Arab Spring,” 364, 366–67; Israel programs and broadcasts, xxii, 121, 132; in U.N., 238. See also Afro-Asia(ns); apartheid Afro-Asia(ns), 117, 137, 167, 169, 181, 221 Agudath Israel, 214, 215, 334 Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 317 AJCSJ. See American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry Albright, Madeleine, 313–14 Index 392 • Index aliya/aliyah, 217, 218, 294; JDL on need for, 181; personal experience with, 295–96; Soviet Jews as candidates, 221. See also Nefesh B’Nefesh Allen, George, 74, 88, 90 Allen mission, 74 Allies, the, 10, 58, 63, 196. See also Committee to Defend America by Aiding al Qaeda, 364–65, 368 America(ns), 58–59, 63, 64, 162, 196; on Charles Beard and America First, 61, 62; bombs, 180; Christian community, 181; colleges, 278; compassion for Russia’s Jews, 248; conservatism, 173; correspondents/ journalists, 13, 17, 19, 20–21, 24–25; culture, 84, 91; electoral politics, xxviii; foreign policy/relations, 57, 58, 82, 86, 183; generosity, 88–89; history, 65, 162–64; news media, 17, 18, 19, 26; policy, 55, 57, 168, 227; politics/politicians, xix, 159, 175, 227, 234, 248–49; power of drops, 300; principles of, 9; society, 212; tourists, 104; and U.N. human rights provisions, 247; voice of, 89. See also correspondents, American; American isolationism/isolationists, liberal; U.S. Information Agency America First Committee, 61–62 American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East, 232 American Federation of Labor, 62 American isolationism/isolationists, 56–57, 62–63, 65; of 1930s and mid1960s , 57, 64; between world wars, 57, 58, 59, 60–61 American-Israeli relations. See IsraeliAmerican relations American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC), 360 American JCC (Jewish Community Center) Judaism, xxvii American Jewish Committee, 33, 250. See also Abram, Morris B.; Tanenbaum , Marc H. American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry (AJCSJ), 223–31, 235, 249, 252, 265–66. See also Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry; Conference on the Status of Soviet Jews; National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council; Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry; Voice of America American Jewish Congress, 83 American Jewish organizations: AJCSJ components on Soviet Jewry, 228; and Communism, 223; fail to provide for poor, 177; fragmenting lifestyle, 181; inaction revealed, 223. See also Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry; American Jewish Committee ; American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry; Jewish Defense League; Jewish federations American Jews/Jewry, xxvii, 204; apprehensions about Obama, 361; and Israel, 155, 222; judging White House, 181–82; and Lieberman’s “observance,” 332–34; majority not Orthodox, 50; move to suburbia, xxvii, 176; move toward GOP, 160, 162, 182; relations with Soviet Jewry, 107, 220, 221–22, 230, 235, 265–66; and Vietnam War, 166. See also American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry; assimilated Jews/assimilation ; Jewish ethnics/ethnicism; Jewish organizations; Jewish vote(rs) Index • 393 American liberalism, 160–61, 323. See also American Jew(s)/Jewry American-Soviet relations, 165, 169 American State Department. See U.S. State Department Ami, Ben, 105–7, 238–39 Am Yisroel Chai, xxi, 234, 373 Andropov...