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When confronted with the records last week, Waldheim replied, "I hear for the first time (now) that there were deportations of Jews from Greece." Countered Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith: "If he did not know what was going on . . . he was probably the world's most incompetent bureaucrat. If he knew, he is a liar...
Although the Rambam was an intellectual and something of an elitist, he cared greatly for the welfare of ordinary Jews. In Egypt, he was the religious and social head of his community. The newly published Crisis and Leadership: Epistles of Maimonides, by Abraham Halkin and David Hartman (Jewish Publication Society; $15.95), portrays an international leader of his faith who was courageous and compassionate, though sometimes blunt...
Rehnquist also said that attempts to stack the court usually failed, citing justices who failed to vote along the ideological lines of the Presidents who appointed them. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 both "put people on the court to get them to do certain things. I think both of those Presidents succeeded to an extent. But new issues keep coming up," he said. He then pointed out that Roosevelt nominees voted frequently against civil rights initiatives...
...film's most powerful scenes, Lanzmann visits Israeli Jew and former Czech Abraham Bomba in Tel Aviv. With some coaxing from the director, Bomba recounts the story of his years at Treblinka. A professional barber, Bomba and several of his colleagues were chosen for the camp's special detail, spared the gas chamber but forced instead to prepare its victims, by shaving their heads. Day after day, he remembers, he and several others cut the hair of thousands of women, moments before their extermination, unaware of their fate...
...Crimson also suffered several minor losses earlier in the season: Viyian Hunt suffered a knee injury, but has now returned, and Kelly Abraham--who never actually played in a game--will be back from a knee injury this week...