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...Seder meal on the eve of Pass over is "the most universally ob served and therefore the most unifying of all Jewish ceremonies," says British Author Chaim Raphael. When Jews throughout the world sit down to the meal this week, they will recount and reflect again on the 3,000-year-old story of how the Angel of Death "passed over" the Israelites when slaying Egypt's firstborn, as told in the Seder narrative, the Haggadah...
...direct purchasing from manufacturers, the two built the firm into a retail empire of more than 240 stores that now accounts for a tenth of all clothing sales in Britain. Sieff was a founder of the World Jewish Congress in 1936 and an early Zionist fund raiser with Chaim Weizmann, who later became Israel's first president...
...Meir and her government are blamed for much of the difficulty. Says Hebrew University Sociologist Chaim Adler: "The people who have to make the decisions in Israel have had all their time, effort and energies taken up with war and international affairs. In peacetime we are discovering that poverty, discrimination, religious friction and labor unrest can be as divisive to our nation as the Hebrew language and the threat of war can be unifying...
...along the northern and eastern borders, Israelis spend more and more time underground. "A couple of years ago, a shelter was where you ran to," said Yitzhak Carmel, a farmer on a settlement near Jordan. "Now it often seems to be the place you live in." At the Maoz Chaim kibbutz, 150 children have been sleeping underground for two years. Many of the shelters have become elaborate installations, complete with lights, water, chemical toilets and good ventilation...
...Dining with Foreign Minister Abba Eban, he asked ex-General Chaim Herzog, former chief of military intelligence, when the Arab-Israeli conflict would end. When Eban tried to say something, Brown snapped: "I am not talking to you." Herzog, who is Eban's brother-in-law, said it would take a long time, then jokingly observed: "In any event, politicians like yourself will not hasten the process...