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Hovering over the joyous atmosphere, however, was the spectre of the Holocaust. Just like the ceremonial breaking of a glass at a Jewish wedding, the Holocaust was a constant reminder to the town’s inhabitants that “the world is sad and needs healing...
...airliner in a 1985 hijacking in Beirut - and CIA station chief William Buckley the same year, to 241 killed in a 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters that led Ronald Reagan to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. The group was also blamed for lethal 1990s bombings of Jewish targets in Argentina - showing that its deadly reach extends far beyond the Mideast...
...controversy that surrounded Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, a study of the Adolf Eichmann trial, in which she coined the famous phrase "the banality of evil." Arendt did not seem satisfied with the term and afterward wrote in a letter to a friend (the great scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem), "It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never 'radical,' that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface." This was what...
...podium at the symposium held at the Murr Center on Friday and proudly recounted Harvard’s men’s basketball history. Despite decades of Penn-Princeton dominance, the list wasn’t as short as one might have guessed (a la the pamphlet of Jewish sports legends in the movie Airplane...
Paul Barman is a skinny, frumpily dressed Jewish guy with glasses, several days’ worth of stubble and an undergraduate degree in visual art from Brown University...