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...Earned her degree in dentistry from Hebrew University...
...pressure Israel to freeze settlement growth and restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians. How far Netanyahu travels in Obama's direction may depend on Lieberman's willingness to go along. "Lieberman is the most talented politician on the scene today," says Yaron Ezrahi, a professor of political science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "But his kind of politics is also dangerous - to Israeli democracy and to the prospect of any kind of peace settlement with the Palestinians." (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
...fought in the Red Army in World War II but, like many other Soviet Jews, later spent years of forced exile in Siberia. "In my home, we spoke only about Israel," Lieberman says. "It was a dream that one day we would come here." Upon arriving, Lieberman enrolled at Hebrew University, moonlighting as a bouncer at a student nightclub and becoming active in the right-wing Likud Party. In the late '80s, he and his wife moved to Nokdim, a rugged West Bank settlement overlooking the Judaean desert, where he still lives. (Each night, he is driven home...
...first step in seeing this code is to look to the world that gave us the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call the Old Testament) and the Koran - the world that embedded the code in them. There we'll see how consequential God's mood changes could be - how, indeed, a burst of vengeful intolerance helped give us monotheism itself; we'll see that the birth of monotheism left us with what you might call...
...path to the pulpit has been as colorful as it has been unusual for Alysa Stanton, 45, America's first-ever female African-American rabbi. Stanton, who was born to a Christian family, was formally ordained on June 6, having completed seven years of rabbinical training at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. Stanton will now assume her new role as the first nonwhite rabbi of Congregation Bayt Shalom, a 60-family synagogue in Greenville...