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Williams has about 2,000 students; many juniors go abroad every semester. If you're into mascots, ours is the Eph. And no, there is no such thing as an Eph--it's the nickname of our founder, Col. Ephraim Williams. The physical representation of the Eph is a purple cow. Personally, I've never seen one. But I'd rather see than be one, as the poem goes...
Williams has about 2,000 students, with a portion of juniors abroad every semester. If you're into mascots, ours is the Eph. And no, there is no such thing as an Eph - it's the shortened name of our founder, Colonel Ephraim Williams. The physical representation of the Eph is a purple cow. Personally, I've never seen one. But I'd rather see than be one, as the poem goes...
...worse, Etta and Ephraim Tzur, and scores of others like them, are overlooked and forgotten by a world that should be outraged...
...perhaps most distressing is that Tzur was the victim of a type of violent attack that is, tragically, far more common in Israel than incidents like those perpetrated by Friedman--and also sadly far less notable to the world at large. She and her 12-year-old son Ephraim died almost a month ago, after having been gunned down in a drive-by shooting by Palestinian terrorists outside the Jewish settlement of Beit El. The two killers, Abdel Nasser Qaysi and Ibrahim Kam, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a secret Palestinian court a week later, convicted not of murder...
David's mother, Joyce, noted that the killing of Etta and Ephraim Tzur "was carried out in the same way as the one which killed [her] son"; apparently, it has received roughly the same amount of attention -- that is, none. It hardly seems to bother even the most sanctimonious of our journalists and human-rights watchers, and concerned Jews will not raise the issue for fear of being condemned as opponents of peace. Arabs simply pretend as if nothing had happened--always quick, however, to raise a furor against real or imagined Israeli transgressions...