Word: kaddish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...service ended with the Mourner's Kaddish led by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold. The audience joined in this prayer and in the singing of the Hatikvah to express the universal hope of freedom and peace...
...despite their solemnity, the observances marking the Jan. 27 anniversary stirred old tensions between Jews and non-Jews. Ceremonies were boycotted, accusations made. Jewish leaders protested the Polish government's initial refusal to include the Jewish prayer of mourning, the Kaddish, in the main memorial ceremony. Polish officials, unyielding, dismissed the complaints as reflecting the ``personal ambition'' of individual Jewish leaders. Some Jews refused to attend the Polish ceremonies; others organized instead a Jewish observance a day earlier, on Thursday. At one point Jewish and Polish demonstrators even clashed, shouting and shoving within sight of the camp's guard towers...
Cohn is the ideal villain. He stole from clients. He corrupted the political system. He illegally lobbied a judge to secure the execution of Ethel Rosenberg (who haunts Cohn in his dying days, then says the Kaddish over his corpse, ending with a blasphemous but heartfelt "son of a bitch"). But for Kushner's polemical purposes, Cohn's greatest evil was his willingness to tolerate, in fact promote, discrimination against gays even as he secretly enjoyed boundless gay sex. He is embodied with robust humor and seductive malevolence by Kushner and actor Ron Leibman, who make Cohn a villain...
Will the rise of nationalism lead to anti-Semitism and racism? Yes, but standing at the funeral for three victims of the coup last August (one of whom was Jewish), I saw a crowd of 100,000 listen to the Kaddish, the Hebrew prayer of mourning. Just last winter, the reading of my translation of Bernstein's Kaddish at the Moscow conservatory seemed extraordinary. But what about the demons of democracy who sell anti-Semitic literature like Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in Moscow underpasses...