Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December; Israel wanted at least some of the talks to be held on its soil and suggested the Negev capital of Beersheba. Carter finally proposed Washington as a compromise. Shortly after the Camp David summit ended, the Egyptians suggested that talks might begin on Oct. 11-which is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Remembering that Egypt had started the 1973 war on Yom Kippur, the Israelis refused. Washington tactfully proposed...
Singer originally gained fame as a writer in Poland, his native country, before coming to New York to join his brother, also a writer, in 1935. His recent works include a serialized autobiographical novel called "Between Faith and Doubt," which is published in Forwards, a Jewish daily paper in New York...
...Harvard Hillel Society committee is drafting a proposal asking the University to allow Jewish students to observe religious holidays without missing classes, Fredda P. Goldsmith '80, chairman of the committee, said yesterday...
...Jewish Affairs committee, which held its first meeting last night, decided to resubmit to the administration a proposal which calls for professors to hold make-up classes or provide tapes and transcripts of lectures given on religious holidays for students who miss class. The proposal was originally made three years ago when registration was held on Yom Kippur, Goldsmith said...
...first Ezra Lieberman, who has devoted his life to hunting down war criminals, pays small heed to news of this meeting. But when his informant, a young Jewish activist, is killed, he senses the gathering of some fresh evil on the part of his old enemies and begins investigating the case, an enterprise that takes him to many odd corners of the world and leads him-several plodding steps behind the audience-to the remarkable conclusion that somehow Mengele has succeeded where the rest of science has so far failed: he has cloned a man. And not just...