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...Lilith Fair should change it even more. McLachlan, in conceiving the event, drew inspiration from the proto-feminist Hebrew legend of Lilith, Adam's first wife. Unlike Eve, Lilith was not spawned from Adam's rib but was created by God out of dust, just as Adam was. But as soon as Lilith and Adam were joined together, they began to quarrel. Adam said: "It is your duty to obey me." Lilith replied, "We are both equal...and I will not be submissive to you." Set that last quote to music, and you'd have a fitting anthem for Lilith...
Readings followed from the Hebrew Bible, read in Hebrew by Ethan M. Tucker '97 and in English by Kevin C. Scott '97; the Hindu Vedas, sung in Sanskrit by Kanakalalshmi Pattabiraman '97 and read in translation by Christine M. Perez...
...woman who also happens to be Jewish. When my sisters and I were young, my mother, who is of Russian Jewish decent, and my father, who is a Seventh-Day Adventist from Jamaica, made the mutual decision to raise the three of us in the Jewish faith. I attended Hebrew school for years, and became a bat mitzvah at age 13. I continue to observe the Jewish holidays and consider Judaism to be a central aspect of my personal identity...
Netanyahu's problems are potentially graver within his own ruling coalition. Even some Likud leaders were visibly cool about supporting Netanyahu in the days immediately following the police report. "He is getting very little backing from his own party," says Gadi Wolfsfeld of Hebrew University, "because he hurt so many people...
...body--most notably, the chatter about 30 percent of undergraduates being Jewish." We at Dartboard are grateful that the Indy has put to rest this apparently notable chatter. We can all now rest easy in the knowledge that only 16.5 percent of our fellow students are actually of the Hebrew faith. The late President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1880, would be horrified that numbers have climbed even that high, but at least the crisis is not as bad as the gossip mill would have had us believe...