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...faith is as self-consciously monotheistic as Islam, and its embrace of Abraham is correspondingly joyful. If many Jews know him best as a dynastic grandfather whose grandson Jacob actually founds the nation of Israel, Muslims regard him as one of the four most important prophets. So pure is his submission to the One God that Muhammad later says his own message is but a restoration of Abrahamic faith. The Koran includes scenes from Abraham's childhood in which he chides his father for believing in idols and survives, Daniel-like, in a fiery furnace to which he is condemned...
...people's one day, Abraham in Genesis makes a point of paying Ephron the Hittite 400 silver shekels for a cave in Hebron to serve as a burial plot. He and Sarah were laid there, and later, Scripture adds, so were Isaac and his wife Rebecca, his grandson Jacob and his first wife Leah. Herod erected a grandiose monument at what hethought was the site. For most of the past few hundred years, its Muslim owners, who called it the Mosque of Abraham, allowed Jews to pray near the entrance. When the Israelis took control in 1967, believers of both...
...Jacob S. Gordon ’05 said he plans to spend his ticket money on food—perhaps a tasty tailgate treat...
...production." A report to the French Senate this month proposes radical solutions, like mixing the produce of different regions and vintages in single-grape-variety wines and adding oak chips to vats as a flavoring agent. The aim: encourage strong brands with consistent tastes that can take on the Jacob's Creeks of this world...
...terrifying, but was it terrorism? Was it politically motivated? Part of a well-planned conspiracy? Or was it the action of one angry man acting alone? First Hadayet killed Victoria Hen, 25, who was working at the ticket counter. Then he spun around and shot to death Jacob Aminov, a 46-year-old diamond importer and father of eight who was standing nearby, seeing off friends. This kind of attack--gunfire into an airport crowd--is one of the terror scenarios that El Al security guards train for most frequently. Almost at once, one of them tackled Hadayet with...