Steal this pie. More on the
Rutgers Sharansky incident and Abe Greenhouse, who seems to be styling himself after Abbie Hoffman, or at least
paying homage.[An historian] notes the overtly ethnic subplot of the [Chicago Seven] trial, particularly the infighting between defendant Abbie Hoffman and Judge Julius Hoffman, the former representing the children of the Eastern European immigrant generation that tended toward political radicalism, and the latter representing the older, more assimilated German-Jewish establishment. During the trial Abbie Hoffman ridiculed Judge Hoffman in Yiddish as "Shande fur de Goyim" (disgrace for the gentiles) - translated by Abbie Hoffman as "Front man for the WASP power elite." Clearly Hoffman and Rubin (who spent time on a Kibbutz in Israel) had strong Jewish identifications and antipathy to the white Protestant establishment.
I wonder what Abbie would think of Abe . . .
Was the pie kosher? "Of course!" Greenhouse told the Forward.
"Well," said [Hillel director] Getraer, "I haven't seen the hechsher."
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