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...alleged transcript was given to Koch last August by an aide, who had received it from the Israeli consul general in New York, Naphtali Lavie. Lavie had come across the Lebanese report in a packet of articles distributed to scholars, journalists and other subscribers by the Israeli government monitoring service. Koch sent an indignant letter to Weinberger demanding that he publicly deny the conversation with the Saudis. Weinberger wrote back that "this 'socalled transcript' is a complete fabrication and a very crude attempt at disinformation." But Koch demanded a public disavowal. When Weinberger refused to reveal the details...
Still, most of the children who attended Brill's school are condemned to follow a path away from Jewish tradition, leaving both scholarship and conscience behind. Among them is Brill's only son, Naphtali, upon whom the father had pinned his hopes for redemption. Naphtali is headed not for the Sorbonne, where Joseph hoped he might bear "Jerusalem athwart the Louvre," but to the University of Miami, where he studies business administration...
...found in Moses' instructions in Exodus that a dozen precious gems be engraved with the names of the twelve tribes. Chagall suffused each window with a single brilliant color on which he painted Joseph's description of the tribes of Israel found in Genesis and Deuteronomy, i.e., Naphtali is described as "a hind let loose," Zebulun as dwelling "at the haven of the sea." For Chagall, the challenge then became to join image and material: "The material is the material of nature, and all that is of nature is religious. For a cathedral or a synagogue...
Yale survived the paroxysms of the Great Awakening, the fierce evangelical movement that swept through New England in the 1730s and '40s. Then came the American Revolution. The gallant old Reverend Naphtali Daggett, president pro tem ("Would you have me president pro eternitate?"), took down his long fowling piece and opened fire ("You old fool," cried the British, "what are you doing here, firing on His Majesty's soldiers?"). Captain Nathan Hale, '73, was captured and sent to the gallows, and Alumnus David Bushnell devised the first submarine and tried to blow up the enemy fleet...
...Answers: Henry I of England, Robespierre, shedder, Naphtali, Ravenna,-Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (National Popular Liberation Army), Alexander the Great, Sir Thomas Lawrence, nearly five, Orion, the sparrow...