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This week a look at the biblical Abraham traces the vital role he plays in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In 1998 TIME focused on the historic power of another Old Testament figure, MOSES...
...Corporal Abraham Hernandez remembers his death as "humbling." It happened during a Pentagon war game last month at an abandoned Air Force base in the California high desert. Hernandez was hit while he and his Marine platoon were trying to secure a landing zone for a helicopter that was bringing in troops to help take the "city." The enemy, masked by surrounding buildings and sandbag bunkers, fired on the group. The laser-activated beeper on Hernandez's belt went off, signaling that he had been killed in action; 22 of his 27 fellow platoon members suffered the same fate...
...folded paper for his children. "He was such a gentle, modest man," says Judit. "It was impossible not to love my father." The sound of Yiddish and the aromas of the seder suffuse other stories told to Centropa researchers. The craggy face of an old rabbi named Abraham Rezmovitz glares out from under a wide-brimmed hat in an account of the family Rezmovitz, who lived in a part of what was then Hungary and is now Romania. "Jewish fanatacism shone in his face," says his grandson Andor. Abraham was known for thumping children with a stick if they failed...
Many, aware that to be overweight is to be unattractive, are trying to diet their way to slimness... Many dieters opt for the eccentric. They have no lack of plans from which to choose... The Lover's Diet, devised by Dr. Abraham Friedman, at least sounds like fun. He urges the overweight to "reach for a mate instead of a plate" and exercise off their excess weight through intercourse. But unless they follow Friedman's low-fat and low-carbohydrate diet as well, they are unlikely to shed many pounds. A single act of intercourse, according to Friedman, burns...
...when a people feels isolated and under attack, it will take all the friends it can get, retorts Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "I don't think it's our business to get at the heart and soul and metaphysics of people as to why they come to support Israel. Some do it for a national-interest point of view, some because of moral issues, some because of theological issues. We don't set standards or conditions for support." That may be a luxury for a more peaceful...