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...Jesus recites it in Mark: "Hear, O Israel: The Sovereign our God, the Sovereign is one." In Acts 3, in the interests of domestic balance, the customary list of Hebrew patriarchs is augmented by the names of their wives: "The God of Abraham [and Sarah], of Isaac [and Rebekah], of Jacob, [Leah and Rachel...
First Chicago officers pointed out that in order to avoid dragging out the problems, they wrote off even more loans than regulators had suggested. William Isaac, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., praised First Chicago's action. "The bank's bitten the bullet," he said, "and they should be commended...
Soloveitchik, 81, is known to his devotees as "the Rav," a Hebrew term of honor that means he is "the Rabbi." (Less reverential Jews on the right wing of Orthodoxy use just his initials "J.B.") As professor of Talmud since 1941 at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York City, Soloveitchik has prepared nearly 1,500 men for ordination. By some estimates, this is the largest number of rabbis trained by any sage of the past millennium. The group makes up the majority of the North American Orthodox rabbis now serving in synagogues. Neither the Conservative...
...neglect a matter of economics or racism? "Hollywood is too dumb to be racist," charges Actor Yaphet Kotto (Blue Collar, Brubaker). "This town is all about dough-that's the crime." For Leon Isaac Kennedy (Penitentiary, Body and Soul), the problem is the industry's "blockbuster mentality. They want 100% of the audience pie. They'd rather not go for slices...
...dark star of the Chronicle is one Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski, a character who might have tumbled from the pages of an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel. Installed as a leader called the Eldest of the Jews, he runs the ghetto with a lethal mix of egomania and compassion. No one can marry without his permission; no one is born or dies without his notice. Rumkowski orders postage stamps bearing his likeness; sycophants and fools dance in constant attendance. He seems fond of his charges, but he fully cooperates with the Nazis, supervises "deportations" that go directly to the ovens of Chelmno...