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...Holy Land, it's inevitable that religious belief, as well as anger, would give hip-hop a special twist. A 30-year-old Miami native who recently moved to Israel, Jew Da Maccabi found rap before religion, but he's now putting his religion into his rap. He dons the black garb and practices the habits of an ultra-orthodox Jew, with a few hip-hop accessories such as a Yankees baseball cap instead of a broad-brimmed black hat. "After I became religious, I remembered what my rabbi said: 'Take what you did before, and flip it to holiness...
...crash two weeks before the 2002 election, and which was won by Republican Norm Coleman. The New York City-born Franken, whose parents moved to the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park when he was four, has long honed his campaign slogan against Coleman: "I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota...
...Waraday's meek demeanor is spiced up with wacky neckties. Aaron Freeman is an African-American Jewish convert who looks as though he just swung off the movie set of Pirates of the Caribbean. The third comedian is Yisrael Campbell, a former Irish-Italian Catholic who became an orthodox Jew. Campbell appears on stage much as he dresses every day around the Holy City - wearing a long black coat, a hat and a Moses-like beard. Black-suited Hanania has the broad-shoulders of a grizzled street tough, either in Chicago or Gaza...
...territories. And the conflict there, considered in light of Israel's history in the past decade -- the invasion of Lebanon, the de facto annexation of the territories through settlement by Israelis, many of whom are religious fundamentalists, the Pollard affair in which the Israeli government assigned an American Jew to spy on the U.S., the Israeli involvement in the Iran-contra enterprise -- has raised the question of whether Israel has lost its way. Israel's accomplishments have the prestige of the miraculous. To many Jews, Israel is a fact of primal identity -- primal precisely because it lived...
...long and passionately as an idea before descending to hard history. When Elie Wiesel's mind drifts to the Holy Land, his expressive face grows radiant. ''We live in biblical times,'' says Wiesel. ''Think of all that has been accomplished in 40 years.'' A national home for every Jew in the world, an ingathering from more than 100 countries -- although, of course, 9.3 million of the world's Jews remain in the Diaspora. The resurrection of a dormant language, Hebrew, for everyday use, a constantly renewed and invented tongue that has helped compose a functioning society, and democracy...