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...more than in 1981. Tehiya, a rightist offshoot of Likud, fared best with five seats, while Yahad, a party founded last March by the popular Ezer Weizman, who resigned as Begin's Defense Minister in 1980, won three. The Kach movement, an ultranationalist group headed by Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, who retains his U.S. citizenship,* won its first seat. "In my first [Knesset] speech, I am going to make an issue of throwing out the Arabs," he said. "We will drive this country crazy. We will make this country Jewish again...
...generation that the Democrats are courting. They returned to the podium for the traditional show of unity, with the defeated candidates closing ranks behind the winner. The delegates swayed once more in unison as a black Broadway musical performer, Jennifer Holliday, belted out The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Rabbi Jacob Pressman pronounced the benediction...
Boom Boom's "order," which consists of about 20 other "nuns" who go by names like Sister Mary Media and Sister Sadie Sadie Rabbi Lady, has performed legitimate charity work by raising funds for AIDS victims and gay Cuban refugees. Fertig ran for the board of supervisors in 1982; with five seats open, he placed a respectable eighth, collecting 23,124 votes. Even some gays find it offensive when he wears a cross as part of his costume or mocks the sacred. But Fertig insists that he is genuinely, if not conventionally, pious. "The sisters share my own sense...
...exists but by the list of those accused of taking part. Most of the suspects belong to Gush Emunim, the nationalistic religious group that has spearheaded the Jewish settlement movement in the occupied West Bank. Some are reserve paratroopers and tank commanders in the armed forces. One is a rabbi. The sight of these men, a few in their early 20s and most of them bearded and wearing skullcaps, being led into court has profoundly unsettled the country...
...Rabbi Moshe Levinger, the spiritual leader of Gush Emunim, insists that his followers acted only because the government failed to safeguard the West Bank settlements. "The arrested will yet go down in history as dear boys who worked for the state at a time when it did not do enough on their behalf," he said. Explained one of the men on trial: "We were groups of guys