Word: israel
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...only does money not serve; no form of justice serves. Lawrence Langer says it just right in his new book, Preempting the Holocaust: "Here injustice prevails." Injustice wins. Thus the general feeling of emptiness, of the absence of retribution, at the trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann in Israel in 1962, and even at the Nuremberg trials, where "war crimes" were supposed to find a fitting punishment. There are no moral equivalents. One might have hanged Himmler, Goebbels, Goring, Hitler himself--hanged them in a row and left their corpses to rot in public view, and still all one would...
...dour-looking David Halberstam explaining that "the King" was an iconoclast and a "forerunner to youth culture." And while we're on the tricky subject of inclusions and omissions, how did the producers justify an hour on the Iranian hostage crisis and not, say, on the creation of Israel...
This week Hussein Ismail Jaber, a banquet manager at the Jerusalem Renaissance Hotel, father of three and a Muslim, is one of the richest men in Israel. For a week. For the fourth time. Because Jewish law forbids possession of certain grains on Passover, Jews who own bread or bakery companies sell their inventory to a Gentile for the holiday. The Sephardic and Ashkenazic chief rabbis sell it all to Jaber, who gives the Finance Ministry a check for $25,000 as a deposit for food products worth about $50 million. Jaber says he does it as "a gesture...
...implications for our culture, our traditions, our values, our laws and the future of the human gene pool. But it's not easy to talk about Dolly in a world that doesn't share a uniform set of ethical values and where it often seems that anything goes. Israel, Australia, China and most European countries have prohibited human cloning. Other countries, like the U.S., have...
...Bedouin shepherds find Dead Sea Scrolls hidden in clay jars in Israel's Qumran Cave, overlooking the Dead...