Word: jews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three months. The prosecution has a list of 568 potential witnesses, including some Order members who have already pleaded guilty. Jury selection, which used up much of last week, ended with the impaneling of an all-white, twelve-member jury with three alternates. Three blacks, one Asian and one Jew were among potential jurors but were eliminated. Potential jurors were asked if they were Jewish, or had sympathies for anti- black, anti-Jewish or tax-protest groups. They were also asked if they could be fair to defendants who may not believe the Holocaust occurred. The Government hopes the trial...
...marriage between a village beauty and a bright yeshiva boy remains stubbornly unconsummated, the odd reason why cannot long escape becoming common knowledge. As before, Singer's tales of rural life reveal the complexities of so-called simple folk. In A Nest Egg for Paradise, a prosperous and pious Jew named Mendel falls victim, once, to the seductive appeals of his sister-in-law. He tries to hide his shame and suffering from the neighbors, but he brings his anguish to a rabbi in another village. "I've forfeited my share in the world to come," he confesses. The rabbi...
...been functioning 15 years, 5,000 was unofficially regarded as the maximum number of immigrants that could be processed in one day. However, during that spring, there were days when maximum capacity was exceeded twofold. They were jostled, pulled, pushed and misunderstood. There is the story of the Jew who cried out "Shoyn fargessen!" -- already forgotten -- only to have his name set down upon his documents as Sean Ferguson...
...another student, "should I accept someone like you, who gives legitimacy to . . . the P.L.O. that wants to kill me?" Remarkably, the debate contained no animus. When class ended, the students agreed that they had learned things they did not know before and that the session had helped Arab and Jew to know each other better...
...attitudes began to change. The girls came around first, moved by written accounts of personal hardship experienced by Israeli Arabs. "Some girls . . . related they had actually been unable to sleep after reading the text," reported the teacher. Ultimately, both boys and girls conceded that the problem of Arab vs. Jew in Israel could no longer be ignored...