Word: jewish
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...presidential campaign which has featured Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) as the first Jewish vice presidential candidate and where Texas Gov. George W. Bush proclaimed Jesus Christ as his "hero," politics and religion seem intrinsically intertwined...
...sure, the killings may overshadow a peace pact brokered by Peres, a man widely disdained even in his own party as a dovish elitist. Israel's response to the uprising may have been condemned abroad as excessive; at home the reverse is true. There is mounting concern in the Jewish state that its army appears unable to respond decisively to the challenge posed by the new intifada, and that may weaken Barak's hold on power...
...Lucy Kaylin, however, gives careful consideration to just such matters in her absorbing new book, "For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nun" (Morrow; 239 pages; $24). Kaylin, the "daughter of a Jewish-born atheist father and a lapsed Lutheran mother who has since turned to Zen Buddhism," approaches the subject with a respectful, blank-canvas curiosity. Some of the nuns she interviews are cloistered, emerging only briefly from a shuttered existence. Others live in apartment complexes and work in boardrooms, indistinguishable from their secular counterparts. All seem inclined toward frank discussion of their faith...
...midnight there is a call for all the brigade commanders in the sector. During the conversation the commander tells us details of the cease-fire agreement. In the middle of the conversation, I receive reports of gunfire toward the Jewish community in Hebron. It looks as if, for the moment, the agreement does not apply to Hebron. At 2 a.m. the gunfire ceases. It is time to give final orders...
...light," meant to ward off spirits. That image--the idea of the theater as a welcoming place where the light never goes out--sparked in him "the fantasy that I might extract some glittering consolation prize for being different and alone." Rich became a theater geek nonpareil, an awkward Jewish kid who, making his Bar Mitzvah, recognized the designer of the temple's ark from his set-design credits in Playbill...