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...France's Catholic bishops, he has traveled thousands of miles through remote Ukrainian villages, his priest's collar helping to put locals at ease in places where foreigners are rarely seen. Desbois taught mathematics in West Africa before becoming a priest, and later worked in Algeria; he also studied Hebrew in Jerusalem, and he serves as an advisor to the Vatican on Jewish affairs. But none of that prepared him for his charged work in Ukraine's villages, where the bottled-up emotions of aging Ukrainians pour out as they describe the executions they saw, and share details that some...
University President Drew G. Faust celebrated the fourth day of Hanukkah Friday, lighting the center candle on the menorah in front of Widener Library. Faust quoted the Hebrew inscription on the toy dreidel in her hand, saying “a great miracle has happened here.” “It’s a moment for community and for joy—look at all these happy faces,” Faust said, referring to the students in the crowd. “Especially for students away from home for the first time, it?...
Leading the movement is a Palestine trio of lyricists who call themselves DAM, a triple-loaded name: an acronym for 'Da Arabian MCs, the Arabic for "blood" and the Hebrew for "eternity." The group doesn't do the formula, commercialized rap music that gets a lot of radio play; instead DAM is a vanguard for a politically charged subgenre of rap that focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...they boast tastes much better than the ordinary kind. Why does our media repeat and recreate these anti-Semitic images, even as we object to anything that touches Muslim honor? Why are we fed this scummy hatred of Jews instead of being encouraged to visit Israel and to study Hebrew?And then there’s Iran, not Arab but Muslim, hence not included in the above statistic (613,660 square miles, population over 65 million). Why does our leader rant at the Jews—“There was no Holocaust!” “There...
...lessons to be learned from the thousands of Arabs who have figured out how to weave their way through Jerusalem's web of invisible barriers. They often dress like trendy young Israelis and, at army checkpoints, switch the car radio to Israeli music and speak a few words of Hebrew to soldiers. "I live in two different worlds," says Ammar Obaidat, who rose from gardener to head elephant keeper at the Tisch Family Zoological Gardens, "and I have to keep a balance between my work and traditions of my Muslim family. It's not easy." Shopping in the Jerusalem Mall...