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…y laboratories. The motivation may have been genetic. My father said that we were descended from several generations of Jewish mystics, none of them able to attain the salaried status of rabbi or cantor. These ecstatic men lived lives of peripatetic eccentricity, stirring congreg...

…er will allow such a nightmare to become a reality. The hateful declarations of Iran's leaders, committed to wiping the Jewish state off the map, do not assuage Israelis’ fears. 2. Economic sanctions cannot convince the regime in Teheran to abandon its nuclear project. However,...

…dn’t lift finger to stop it.” The trouble began the next day, shortly after Friday prayers. It was also the eve of the Jewish New Year, and the Western Wall area was crowded. As people poured out of the mosques, a number began hurling stones, some of them the size of small bould...

the site of one of the worst mass slaughters of Jewish

wouldn’t even know that the Jewish residents of Kiev were gathered in the area

Holmes was echoing the views of the 15"" Century Jewish sage Isaac Abravanal who

…has ever found the “original” meal.) My mother has always said we were “comfortable.” (The same comedian told about the Jewish man who was hit by a car, and was laying on the ground; when the ambulance attendant asked him “are you comfortable,” he replied, “I make a living.’’) T...

…t, was on Jerusalem: Palestinian sovereignty over a// the city’s predominantly Arab areas, and Israeli sovereignty over Jewish neighborhoods. In other words, a division of the city. Even though I was concerned that Gili and Shlomo had gone so far, especially on Jerusalem, I’d re...

Century proponent of a school of Jewish ecstatic mysticism, Abraham Abulafia, whose interpretation of the Guide and his own Commentary on the Secrets taught that the human mind, if transformed into a “state of active intellect,” could become one with Spirit, realizing the Kingdom...

…tor. My father’s initial impulse in coming to Palestine was more personal than political. He was born, in 1910, in the Jewish shtet/ of Pushelat in Lithuania, near the larger Jewish town of Ponovezh, a major seat of rabbinic learning and teaching. His own father, though the only...

” and “Israel’s single most visible defender — the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court

when he will hold a fund-raiser for about 80 Jewish donors at a private dinner.

her Father was born of poor Jewish decent in

which according to a Jewish joke of the time

my friends and I decided to form a social athletic club - - a euphemism for a Jewish gang