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More than a half-century of naive persistence and driven search for unity in
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013504.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…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...

leader will allow such a nightmare to become a reality. The hateful declarations of Iran's leaders
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027100.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…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,...

The request that had come across my desk a few days earlier need not have
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028227.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…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...

rear there was a tiny back porch, a yard and a garage. Since we had no car, we rented the garage
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017104.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…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...

they were willing to consider full Palestinian sovereignty over two Arab
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011828.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…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
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013505.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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...

to the grand old Black Sea port of Constanta, and by ship through the
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027868.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…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...