Word: jewish
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...historian is claiming that Harvard and its president, James B. Conant ’14, built “deliberate ties” with Hitler’s regime, even as reports of anti-Jewish policies in pre-war Nazi Germany made their way across the Atlantic...
Fans will delight in the Jerky Boys familiar characters, like the abrasive Frank Rizzo, voiced by Johnny B., whose defining characteristic is an unnecessary overuse of a four letter word rhyming with “puck,” the memorable Sol Rosenberg, an annoyingly shy, neurotic, Jewish man, á la Woody Allen, and the hilarious transsexual Jack Tors. Kamal’s participation is comparatively limited to infrequent characters like Tarbash the Egyptian magician and Ali Kamal...
...term "Palestinian" hardly existed in the international lexicon. The fate of the Arab residents of what had once been British-mandate Palestine was viewed by the West, Israel and the Arab world as properly the responsibility of the Arab regimes. But with their failed military campaigns to destroy the Jewish State in 1948, 1967 and 1973 leaving the vast majority of Palestinians living either as refugees in the Arab world or under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza, Arafat personified a determination among Palestinians to take charge of their own fate...
...extremists accuse those who support disengagement of being erev rav, a biblical term that refers to people from other nations who joined the Israelites in their exodus from Egypt. Some Talmudic rabbis blame all the bad events in Jewish history--from the Golden Calf to the destruction of the Temple and the Diaspora--on the traces of those non-Israelites in Jewish society. Increasingly, the fringe of religious extremists, bound to refrain from killing Jews, justify the possibility of political violence by arguing that police and soldiers evacuating Jews from their land would be erev rav, enemies within who deserve...
Late in the night at Avigail, Yehoshafat runs through a list of erev rav that ranges from Jewish kapos, who aided the Nazis during the Holocaust, to an Israeli-Palestinian coexistence group. "Esau always wants to hurt Jacob," he says, referring to the biblical enmity between the wicked son of Isaac and his good brother, whom God renamed Israel and made father to the Jews. "We had erev rav 5,000 years ago, and we have them today." In these dusty hills, the Old Testament is closer to Yehoshafat and his friends than the government in Jerusalem 25 miles away...