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They've made progess, but it's been tough, what with no utilities, phones or any neighbors at first. Petrie, who handles investor relations for oil companies, called family and friends for money, then oil business associates in New York, San Francisco, Washington and Houston. They raised $2.5 million - the...
Dormcest: 1. Act of hooking up with a student living in close proximity, usually in the same dorm or entryway (see Hook-up). 2. The source of most Sunday brunch gossip.
Hilles Library: 1. One of the few advantages of living in the Quad; this quiet wasteland is the best place to study on Saturdays. 2. The recently downsized Hilles offers 50,000 square feet of available space, to be used to create another magnetic student spot—like Loker...
If this seems a bit much, Samuel Heilman, an expert on Orthodoxy at Queens College of the City University of New York, notes that "more and more Orthodox women are solidly middle class. Why shouldn't the mikvahs live up to the standard of everything else in their lives?" The...
After a period of relative eclipse, mikvahs are getting their total makeover. For almost two thousand years, in keeping with a passage from the Bible's book of Leviticus, traditional Judaism required its womenfolk to submerge themselves in "living" water - from an ocean, spring or rainfall - fulfilling purity rules and...