Word: jew
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...Eisner's work became increasingly prominent: Jewish identity and the urge to use his work to make a better world. The Name of the Game, from 2001 (see TIME.comix review), cast a family melodrama in the little-seen world of turn-of-the-century Old Money New York Jews who live in town houses. His 2003 book, Fagin the Jew, took Dickens' famous Oliver Twist character and invented a fuller biography for the character, with the intention of dispelling one of literature's most potent defamatory stereotypes. When I interviewed Eisner about Fagin he described the book as a "polemic...
...ready to make painful compromises. But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises-not now and not in the future.As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people.We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role. I told everyone, the Americans...
...Wellesley, cared little about her personal relationship with Christ. At the time, Wellesley “had a very stringent Jewish quota,” Kumin recalled—and in Wellesley’s eyes, however fond she may have been of Jesus, Maxine Winokur was still a Jew. She was rejected...
...DeLay's ethical standards, Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been famously tight-lipped. A central issue is whether some of DeLay's overseas travel was funded, at least indirectly, by Abramoff, in violation of House rules barring legislators from accepting travel paid for by lobbyists. Abramoff, 46, an orthodox Jew who espouses conservative values, was already under investigation by two congressional committees and the FBI for allegedly bilking his Indian-tribe clients and possibly abusing tax exemptions on charities he set up. Abramoff spoke to TIME'S Adam Zagorin about the questions swirling around him. Excerpts from their conversation, conducted...
...Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) “Inappropriate” party at Adams House with six of his friends when the assailant reportedly slowed down his vehicle and called Garcia a “faggot Jew...