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...opposing foreign policy teams of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had their genesis 46 years ago in the 1962 class of diplomatic trainees at the U.S. State Department. Anthony Lake, a Wasp from Connecticut, and Richard Holbrooke, the son of European-Jewish immigrants, arrived in Washington that summer, destined to become two of the best diplomats of their generation. They became close friends and were posted together to Vietnam one year later. Lake would later sign Holbrooke's wedding certificate, and Holbrooke eventually became the godfather of one of Lake's daughters. They also became competitors, rising together...
...security that its citizens deserve, we also saw checkpoints located well inside the West Bank that seem to have the purpose of hassling Palestinians. It was encouraging, though, to meet with Father Elias Chacour, a Catholic Archbishop and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee who runs a school for Jewish, Muslim and Christian children. We were also encouraged by life in Galilee, whose population is a fifty-fifty mix of Israelis and Palestinians. The city can be a model for peaceful coexistence in all of the Holy Land. Steve Hawkins, BOULDER, COLO...
...said. Next week will mark Faust’s first visit to China, but for another member of her entourage, the journey will be something of a homecoming. Constitutional Law Professor Lawrence H. Tribe ’62 “was born in Shanghai because his parents were Jewish refugees,” Faust said. “So he’s going back for the first time since he was five or six years old.... This is a very dramatic trip for him.” —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached...
...sure how to react—I feel angry,” he said. “But I think that by dealing with this, we can rediscover what makes our community.” Meyers was an integral part of the Harvard Jewish community, his friends said. In between moments of tears and laughter, Meyers’ friends called him a “righteous person” who had taken to studying the Jewish faith—albeit in a “quirky” way. Meyers would study Jewish texts sporadically, according to his friends...
Then there is the Jewish calendar, which determines the placement of Purim. It is "lunisolar," which means that holidays wander with the moon until they reach the end of what might be thought of as a month-long tether, which has the effect of maintaining them in the same season every year...