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...Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau) is possessed by a primal memory: a rabbi instructing the boy Judah that the eye of God is all seeing; no crime ever escapes it. Now successful and middle aged, Judah self-deprecatingly suggests to the audience at a testimonial dinner on his behalf that perhaps he became an ophthalmologist because he is haunted by that recollection...
...Cliff's only connection to Judah -- until the concluding sequence of this thematically unified but somewhat bifurcated movie -- is through Ben, another rabbi (Sam Waterston), who is one of Cliff's brothers-in-law. The rabbi is Judah's patient, and his eye trouble is quite literal; by the end of the movie he has gone blind. But this blindness is also symbolic. By visiting this affliction on the only character in his movie who has remained close to God, Allen is suggesting that if the Deity himself is not dead, then he must be suffering from severely impaired vision...
...possessed a monopoly on iron smelting, and perhaps they even made steel. With advanced swords and shields, they fought the neighboring Israelite tribes, mortally wounded King Saul and stole the Holy Ark of the Covenant. In the face of the Philistines' military threat, the powerful kingdoms of Israel and Judah united against them. Defeated first by David and then by the Egyptians in an alliance with Solomon, the Philistines went into decline in the 10th century...
Grants are not accepted by the University until they conform to academic rules, said M. Judah Folkman, professor of anatomy and cellular biology, who has received $300,000 to $600,000 a year since 1974 from a group of chemical companies...
...inspired by the behavior of people who had gone through the same experience and remained the way they were before. They hadn't given in or given up, and that gave me hope." He adds: "I also gained strength from the pages of our Jewish history." Shcharansky cites Judah Maccabee, leader of an Israelite band that revolted and threw off the yoke of Syrian oppressors in the 2nd century B.C. Says he: "The fact that there is a history of resistance always helps...