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...tale is a typically dispiriting take on American Jewish dysfunction from Samuel G. Freedman's new book Jew vs. Jew (Simon & Schuster; 384 pages; $26). But to the initiated, its message is more specific: the angst of belonging to the group so often stuck in the middle of such rifts. Gottesman is a Modern Orthodox Jew. Just like Joe Lieberman...
...been a good week for American Jewry. Freedman recalls stories his mother used to tell of Bess Myerson's selection as Miss America, "how thrilled they were that a Jewish girl was seen as pretty enough to be chosen. In a more profound way, this touches the same chords." But to those familiar with Judaism's internal fault lines there is an irony in Al Gore's embrace of--and America's fascination with--Joe Lieberman's style of observance. For decades, Modern Orthodoxy has taken a drubbing from its left and its right. Many were convinced it was doomed...
Even though her review of literature pointed to the evils of pornography and prostitution, her advisor, Benjamin Freedman, encouraged her to continue with her pro-porn data...
...Martin, and I went to a little French restaurant. I said, 'Do you have any local catch?' thinking that I'd outsmart the frozen-fish scene. But it didn't work, because it is the inland fish, the reef feeders, who get these poisons." Thanks to Freedman's quick thinking in an emergency, Bellow was flown back to Boston and landed in intensive care. Rumors at the time had him near death. "It took me a couple of years to come back from that," he says. Any lingering effects? "Yes, I sometimes trip while walking, and I may fall down...
...part of that, you tried to anchor yourself. You're looking for an anchor, and a very attractive woman is to be preferred, if available. But they're not always so capable of being married, having a husband who is just another wandering soul in the night." He pays Freedman the ultimate Bellow compliment: "I can never say anything to her that she doesn't understand. And not only understand, but often she's been there in anticipation before...