Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truck driver, aware that an alert was on, refused to stop, two of the Arabs opened fire. One woman was instantly killed, another mortally wounded, and all the others were hurt. The truck's engine was shot out. Driver Faiz Saad coasted silently down a hill into a Jewish border village, where he gave the alarm...
...American dance classic in Fancy Free (1944) and later joined forces on Broadway's evergreen West Side Story, were collaborating on a new work for the first time in nearly 17 years. In the season of The Exorcist, their theme had a certain built-in appeal: the ancient Jewish folk myth of the dybbuk, a wandering spirit of a dead person that invades and inhabits the body of a living man or woman. So what could go wrong...
...children should wed. By the time boy meets girl, the vow has been forgotten, Leah's family has become wealthy, and Channon is merely a poor rabbinical student. When Leah's father arranges a more suitable match, Channon in desperation invokes the kabbalah -the body of medieval Jewish esoteric teachings-and is possessed by the evil spirit that he conjures up. In Channon's body, the dybbuk appears at Leah's wedding to claim her. Religious elders exorcise the spirit, but Leah dies, unable to live without the man she truly loves...
...kinds of revolutionaries: those truly committed to the ideals of peace and freedom, and those whose only impulse is to destroy, murder, and plunder. The Palestinian terrorists belong to this second group--under the cover of revolutionary jargon they commit atrocities reminiscent of those committed against the Jewish People by another group of degenerative revolutionaries--the Nazis. To equate Israel's punitive and deterrent raids with the nazi-like bestiality of Palestinian terrorists is patently ridiculous. Though the loss to humanity may be similar, there is a true difference in the aims, rationality, and justification of such divergent acts. Steve...
After college she met a young Iranian, married him in 1960 and at age 23 was whisked off, first to Teheran, then to Pakistan, where her husband headed the Iranian cultural mission. "I came from a relaxed Jewish family," she recalls. "He came from a relaxed Moslem family. But naturally there were differences. I had two mothers-in-law, for instance. In the Middle East a good woman is not noticed. Her behavior at a party gives no grounds for later conversation among the guests. I tried my best, but it was difficult to be so self-effacing." After four...