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Moving back into the street, the Palestinians stumbled onto a municipal worker named Jacob Kadosh, 59. "Who are you?" they asked. "A Jew," said Kadosh. "Which way to the school?" demanded the Hebrew-speaking Arab. The puzzled Kadosh pointed, and then was shot in the shoulder. The three men advanced to the school, 100 yds. away, and were inside before the guards realized that they were there. Waving guns and hand grenades, the Palestinians jolted the sleeping students awake with kicks on the feet. "Lakum, lakum [Get up, get up]!" they yelled. Fifteen students, a few teachers and the rabbi...
...generalship and his diplomatic persuasion to retain the ten Religious Party members. They differ with his moderate views on ceding some occupied territories as part of the peacemaking process; they also have a running difference with Labor on the sticky religious question of just who is a Jew and what rabbinical procedures must be followed for conversions to Judaism. Even if Rabin succeeds, another national election may have to be called this year in an effort to give Labor a clear majority without having to depend on a coalition...
After my escape from Auschwitz, I went to a small town in Slovakia in which several thousand Jews still lived. I asked the Rabbi of the community if I could speak in the synagogue on a Friday evening to warn the congregants that they were to be gassed in Auschwitz and that they must not report to the trains for deportation. The Rabbi said he would consider my request and while I waited for his answer I stood outside the temple and smoked a cigarette. He came out of the building and told me that a Jew who smokes...
...failed. So the town moves from one false apocalypse to another, and the epic tragedy of One Hundred Years of Solitude degenerates into comedy. Instead of the promised return of the magician Melquiades, who brought the first ice to Macondo, the senile priest decries the reappearance of the Wandering Jew--a bewildered adolescent who is the first visitor in 20 years to stay overnight in Macondo's only hotel. At last the promised end becomes pure satire at the conclusion of No One Writes to the Colonel...
...century New Orleans and the Basin Street Blues through World War I, the '20s, the Depression and on and on. It is an anthology of Cohan and Gershwin and Lehar and Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein and Bernstein and seemingly a few hundred others. Every number is a jew el from the national treasury...