On Jews, Germans, and Clones

By BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN

In March, Avi Ben-Abraham, an Israeli doctor, announced that he planned to clone a human being. I would have thought that Jews, of all people, would understand the dangers of playing with genetics. But no, it's not Jews who learned that lesson -- it's Germans. Wherever scientists start cloning people, trying to improve our genes, it won't happen in Germany.

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