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...appearances by more big names than their underground appeal might be thought to merit, ya big hag. But Brennan tells how a couple of schmoes from the City achieved recognition with the stars. "Alan Arkin's sons knew about us," he says, "and Tom Jones--his son and his grandchildren were into...
...That's a difficult question. I think we're all capable of homicide, which is a rather different crime, because it can't be premeditated. I'm sure if I or my grandchildren were attacked, I'd be capable of killing somebody. But I think murder, in the sense of premeditated or planned, is something that very few people are capable of. And I don't honestly think it's ever justified. I think it's a dangerous philosophy, to say it's ever justified...
When she died on Jan. 22, after years of failing health but at the remarkable age of 104, she left behind five children, 28 grandchildren--and a motto as legacy to all who mourned her passing: ``I know not age, nor weariness, nor defeat.'' The boast is testament to her ability to craft legend out of the exigencies of real life. Of course, Rose Kennedy knew age and weariness and defeat. Many times over. She outlived four of her children and a husband who loved and humiliated her. She endured the haunting gossip and relentless scrutiny accorded all her family...
Left behind in the former heartland of European Jewry were 2 million, the dim shadow of a once vibrant community. Many were the elderly who could not face or afford the rigors of emigration. But most were the assimilated children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren--generations so thoroughly absorbed and secularized that their Jewishness seemed to consist of little more than distinctive surnames and distant memories...
...years only a few circumcisions were done here,'' he says. ``It was difficult to gather the 10 men required to hold Sabbath prayers.'' Now Prague's Altneu Schul, the main synagogue, holds services daily, and three study groups meet weekly to explore Jewish religion and culture. ``My grandchildren,'' says Rott, ``know more about being Jewish than my children do.'' Although Prague's Jewish community is minuscule--numbers range from the officially registered 1,400 up to an estimated 3,000--hundreds more are showing an interest in finding Jewish roots or, for those who have none, in converting. At Beit...