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...words of five white Harvard undergraduates who have lived in South Africa paint a grim portrait of the future of that nation. Gerald M. Benatar '86, Gerald M. Fox '86, Nita Lelyveld '86, Mary J. Menell '85, and one junior who asked not to be identified all agree that change, possibly bloody change, will come. But they disagree on the roles which Harvard and the United States can and should play in causing that change to occur...
Ultimately none of the students sees change in South Africa without violence. "I've become pretty disillusioned," says Lelyveld. "The torture and repression in the country are very real. The more I look at the problem, I can't see any way to end it without this horrible bloodbath. And when it comes, which it will, I just hope we're on the right side...
...York Times has always been more of a national than a metropolitan newspaper; even its local coverage leans heavily on city politics and gives short shrift to human-interest stories. Last year, in an attempt to remedy the situation, Metropolitan Editor Arthur Gelb assigned Staff Reporter Joseph Lelyveld to spend a year covering the New York school system from the back row of a fourth-grade class at Harlem...
...persecution that Hitler and Christianity inflicted on the Jew. Granted that Jews to some extent have reversed the taskmaster situation. But let it be known to one and all: Jews are ordered by the Torah to aid the Negro and all that are oppressed. Men like Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld have made it known that the war is on. To the Negro and my fellow Jews: we shall overcome...
What this modest example suggests is that the American Jew is capable of responding creatively to the challenge presented by black antiSemitism. "We Jews, of all peoples," says Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland's Fairmount Temple, "should be able to feel empathy with Negro frustration and anger. When we look deep into our Jewish conscience, we admit that it is right that the Negro should expect more of us." Lelyveld has given his share; as a civil rights worker in Hattiesburg, Miss., five years ago he was attacked and severely beaten by two white men. Says Charles E. Silberman...