Word: dov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collection's title story, Englander follows the sufferings of an Orthodox man who must seek alternative satisfaction when his wife refuses to make love to him. Finding his sexual desires "unbearable," Dov Binyamin receives a "special dispensation" from the Rebbe to visit a prostitute. In theory, this excused adultery will save the marriage by reducing sexual pressure. Not surprisingly, the Rebbe's solution causes as many problems as it solves, and after a series of funny and uncomfortable dialogues with two prostitutes and a cab driver, the story ends with a sorrowfully ironic twist rather similar to that...
...five students-first-years Rachel Wolgelernter, Batsheva Greer and Elisha Dov Hack and sophomores Lisa Friedman and Jeremy Hershman-are fighting a residential requirement for first-years that has been in place for years...
...Dov P. Grossman '97, a senior in Eliot House and a Crimson editor, contacted his house representative Daniel J. Kolodner '97 a few weeks ago about the problem...
Above all, the Palestinians need to realize that violence will only damage if not halt the peace process. When the Palestinians take an inconsequential gesture as an excuse to intitiate bloody conflict, any prospect of peace is put in jeopardy. --Miriam B. Goldstein '99 Dov. P. Grossman '97 Michael I. Sugarman...
...chur is a groundbreaking film. The director is clearly blaming the immigrants themselves, the Sephardic Moraccans, for their problems integrating into Israeli society. Old world superstitions thrive among this self-segregated community in modern Israel. Dov Halfon, the editor-in-chief of Ha'aretz, Tel Aviv's daily newspaper, writes that Sh'chur "has broken one of the central tenets of traditional Sephardic thought: Always blame the Ashkenazis." Thus, the film is at the center of heated debate in today's Israel...