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Community elders were at first appalled. Now they are grateful for the intervention. "The Haredim are shocked by these cases," says Noach Korman, a Haredi attorney in the rabbinical court that adjudicates family and religious law, and the director of a shelter for battered wives. "At first they said, 'These people are crazy, they don't belong to us.' But now I hear Haredi voices saying: 'We should examine ourselves and not close our eyes to why these things are happening.' "Says Naomi Ragen, an orthodox woman who is an author and advocate for gender equality: "These shocking things...
...failed to highlight the visit of President Reagan to the Bitburg cemetery in West Germany. This event was condemned by numerous religious and veterans' groups and was widely perceived to be insensitive to the memory of those who perished during the tumultuous years of World War II. Noach Dear, Councilman 32nd District, Brooklyn New York
...York City, councilman Noach Dear, who represents the district where the shooting occurred, says the issue is not new to him. Across from his office, a mentally ill woman living in a small apartment almost daily flings feces out her window. "The police say they can't do anything about it," Dear says. "The mental-health department says it can't do anything. People look at me and say, 'Why do we need you, if you can't do anything about this?' It's very frustrating...
...were sealed (in a milk can) and buried at a secret point in the ghetto. Not until 1946 did searchers find them in bombed Warsaw's featureless rubble. The man who originally compiled, wrote and preserved the records was named Emmanuel Ringelblum, a teacher of history; he recalls Noach Levinson, hero of John Mersey's bestselling novel, The Wall, who was supposed to have preserved archives of the Warsaw ghetto. In 1939 Ringelblum was safe in Switzerland, but he went back home to Warsaw to share the fate of his fellow Jews, and to record the manner...
These qualities are embodied in the person of Noach Levinson, the diarist on whose discovered documents Hersey maintains he is basing his book. Levinson is an ugly man who runs around wheedling information from the central group of characters-people who are growing together under the curious pressures of the ghetto...