Word: bracha
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...Bracha - the Mount of Blessing - is a windswept hilltop settlement of Jews overlooking the Palestinian city of Nablus. According to biblical tradition, it is where Joshua and the children of Israel first entered the Holy Land. And, on Aug. 18, Mike Huckabee - a Baptist preacher, two-time governor of Arkansas and once and perhaps future Republican presidential candidate - received a heartfelt blessing from the local Orthodox Jewish minister. Rabbi Eliezer Melamed prayed that Huckabee would become President so that he could emulate the ancient Persian king Cyrus the Great, who encouraged the Jews to rebuild Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem...
...Tanzim gunmen crouched at the side of the house. They aimed their Russian-made Kalashnikov rifles at the hilltop, where the edge of the Jewish settlement of Bracha glowed faintly through the trees. The bullets whizzed harmlessly through the night. At a range of half a mile, and fired by inexpert marksmen, they were no great threat. Minutes later, the Tanzim cleared out, leaving the residents of this small street on the edge of Nablus to face Israel's retribution. A heavy machine gun ripped through the metal gate that had provided the gunmen with their cover. Across the street...
...really surprised by Rabbi Magnin's ungracious and uninformed comment on Rabbi Siegel's appropriate choice of a Jewish statutory bracha (ritual blessing) to conclude his prayer at President Nixon's Inauguration [Jan. 29], but I am dismayed that TIME should have repeated and embellished the report of Rabbi Siegel's "kingly" blessing...
...story is an incredible one. Bracha, a Shemansky daughter long in the charge of a local housekeeper of nitwits, commits suicide. Yanins, who fled from Ma's begemony seven years earlier, hitchhikes from Boston with her husband and child for the funeral. Ma had telegraphed Yanins, "Come!," but, of course, had already buried Bracha. And, although everybody is gathered at Brooms Street, nobody is mourning Bracha...
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