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...faced a serious threat to homeland security. In 1942 two German submarines landed teams of four people each at Amagansett, N.Y., and Ponte Vedra, Fla. The Germans were supposed to blow up hydroelectric plants, key railroad junctions and spread terror in New York by bombing railroad stations and Jewish-owned department stores. The operation was a fiasco; within two weeks, all eight men were caught (six were later executed), but the threat was, and is, real...
...grim litany rings out in every synagogue in the country every year, last Thursday included. A key passage in the liturgy for Yom Kippur, the somber Jewish holiday of repentance, bids believers to speculate on the ways to die. "Who by fire and who by water," they read in unison. "Who by the sword and who by wild beasts, who by famine and who by drought..." It is a hard passage. Wild beasts? There are usually some raised eyebrows...
Reconstruction hinges on an account of the “Ioanid Gang” bank heist of 1959, in which six prominent Jewish intellectuals robbed an armored car with over one million lei on its way to a branch of the Romanian National Bank in Bucharest. The title refers to a propaganda film made by the Romanian Communist Party in 1961 entitled Reconstituirea (Re-Enactment), which was a literal re-enactment of the bank heist using the actual robbers, who by then had been condemned to death by the government. Two of these six were Lusztig’s grandmother...
...experience of shooting in Romania was a defining one for Lusztig, who is Jewish and a second-generation Romanian immigrant. “I don’t believe being Jewish is relevant in the context of being American...it’s something I never thought about,” said Lusztig. “But as soon as you get to a country like Romania where historically it’s an issue and currently it’s an issue, you suddenly become very aware.” But Lusztig didn’t see this...
...word ‘Islam’ means submission. The word ‘Muslim’ means submitter. A person who submits to God if they’re Christian or Jewish is Islam,” said panelist Ali S. Asani, professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim languages and cultures...