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...Wednesday and then began randomly shooting and lobbing grenades into the street and at neighboring buildings, according to residents of the area. From the vantage point of three Black Cat snipers watching the building, I could see Nariman House's shattered windows. The couple who own the building are Jewish, giving rise to rumors throughout the day that "Israelis" were somehow involved in the attacks. The other people in the building, including an infant wearing a pink bonnet and green blanket, were held as hostages but released early Thursday. The last person to leave, a young woman, told authorities that...
...blasts were most likely the National Security Guard commandos setting off explosives to clear sections of the hotel. The officer would not confirm that, but it was exactly the same blasts I would hear and see later in the day at Nariman House, the residence set up by a Jewish religious group for Israelis overseas, which is also known as the Chabad House...
Throughout Israel, shopkeepers and office-goers on Friday kept their radios and televisions tuned to the unfolding terrorist tragedy in Mumbai. They listened raptly to accounts of Indian commandos snaking down from helicopters onto the roof of the Chabad Jewish guesthouse in Mumbai, where inside two terrorists were holding at least six people hostage...
...very wealthy at Harvard,” Levi said. “The attempt was to democratize the benefits of living on campus.” A VISION REVISITEDBut according to some, Lowell’s vision for Harvard housing is tainted by another legacy: discrimination toward gay, Jewish, and other minority students.The current Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck acknowledged that “in Lowell’s time there were certain kinds of exclusions that were part of the zeitgeist of the era.” As GSD students including Matt Storus approach the project, they...
...carves out its own niche in the genre. Rather than focusing on violence, the film uses it as a backdrop for the story of Bruno and Shmuel’s friendship. The exploration of this personal relationship between a Nazi officer’s son and a Jewish boy is something unique and creates a world apart from socially constructed hate.“We’re not supposed to be friends, you and me. We’re meant to be enemies. Did you know that?” Bruno asks Shmuel. This simple refutation of social expectations...