Word: mufti
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...Santa, an administrative aide in a junior high school, told me, "It's nice to see people smile, y'know, 'cause a lot of people are really bummed out nowadays." Almost to a man, they love children; most have children themselves, many have grandchildren. Several Santas work in mufti year 'round in youth organizations like the Boy Scouts...
...Cairo newspaper in 1963 wrote that "The Mufti appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country...because the Arab armies were about to enter in their stead against the Jewish gangs and oust them from Palestine...
...Yomiuri Giants' first baseman Sadaharu Oh, 37, for hitting his 756th home run (TIME, Sept. 12)-and topping the U.S. major league record set by Aaron himself in 1976. After a few words to the 45,000 Japanese fans in Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium, Hank, clad in mufti, slammed a ball into the leftfield bleachers while the crowd chanted: "Aaron, Aaron, Aaron!" Hammerin' Hank even toted along a special present for Oh, who has a peculiar habit of raising his right leg in the air before the pitch. Aaron's gift: a stuffed flamingo...
...Muslims in the Arab nations and the Jews in Israel, with dismay. He is skeptical of just what "secularism" is taken to mean. He recalls a PLO custom in pre-civil-war Labanon. When a Palestinian fighter died in combat, his funeral procession would be led by a Muslim mufti [religious leader] and a Christian priest walking hand in hand. "This doesn't mean secularity," Shahak concludes with a laugh. "'Secular' means, for people like me, putting the clergy in their place...
Chances are that Dayan, Sharon and Weizman will turn out to be less chauvinistic in their policies than expected. For one thing, observes Zeev Schiff, Ha 'aretz's military analyst, the fortunes of war have affected Israel's long mufti line. Following the spectacular victory of the Six-Day War, generals were national heroes, eagerly courted by political parties and the public alike. Israel fared less well in the October War, and generals seem to have lost some stature. Thus, even if the triumvirate were to favor some extreme military action, there is no guarantee that they...