…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...
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” 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
a Jewish impresario who brought musicians to the United States from the Soviet Union—went awry and a young Jewish woman named Iris Kones died from inhaling smoke from a bomb that was intended to disrupt but not to kill. Because the bomb was inherently dangerous and caused death
during the week of the Jewish New Year. I invited the then-president to join the Jewish invitees at the conference to services in Moscow. He refused
because it would change the natural order of when the Jewish Sabbath fell. Under the conventional calendar
I didn’t focus on Jewish rights or on Israel. There were bigger and more serious problems facing America
but I was not an uncritical advocate for the Jewish state. To the contrary
the Jewish scholar Maimonides had provided a more nuanced psychological insight. [quote]
Holmes was echoing the views of the 15th Century Jewish sage Isaac Abravanal who observed that “experience is more forceful than logic.”
which would move the Jewish Sabbath to other days of the week
then why hasn’t there been a Jewish president? And why is there only