Word: jew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...killed or wounded 500 to 600 of the enemy. After examining the scene, company commander J.M. Stehling recommends Rubitsky for the Congressional Medal of Honor. Stehling's commander, Lieut. Colonel Herbert Smith, approves and relays the word to his superior, Colonel John W. Mott. "You mean a Jew for the Congressional Medal of Honor?" Mott replies. According to Smith's later affidavit, Mott "just laughed and walked away...
...this insensitivity that allowed one of my Harvard friends to tell me, only half in jest, that "One Jew at Harvard Business school is worth 1000 rednecks on a chain gang...
Temple reconstruction was no issue until 1967, when Israel captured the Mount and the Old City. Eager to preserve peace, Israel continues to allow Muslims to administer the site. They permit no Jew or Christian to pray openly on the holy ground, nor will they consider allowing even the simplest synagogue or church. The merest hint of rebuilding the Temple is considered an outrage by the Prophet's followers, who, in the words of an official at Al Aqsa, "will defend the Islamic holy places to the last drop of their blood...
...Jew, at Hillel, in SAMmy or on campus at large, would suggest that Jews should associate exclusively with each other, but many realize that having a large group of Jewish friends is important to help foster a sense of community as well as locate that Jewish Mr./Ms. Right...
Back in Berlin, the Nazi authorities were fretting over another problem. In the early years of Nazism, one of Hitler's goals had been to harass Germany's half a million Jews into leaving. Now he was planning a more extreme policy: rounding up and killing every Jew in all of German-occupied Europe. Himmler's special commandos had shot tens of thousands of Jews in Poland, but the Nazis sought more efficient methods. Himmler's deputy, Reinhard Heydrich, summoned representatives of all major government departments to the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to inform them of what he called...