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Ariel Sharon's counterintuitive peace plan - in essence, step up the violence - may best be explained by an old Jewish allegory: A man tells his rabbi that his wife is threatening to leave him because their home is too small. The rabbi advises the man to bring his horse into the house. The following day, the skeptical fellow returns, saying his wife is even angrier now. The rabbi tells him to bring a cow into the house. This makes her even angrier, but the rabbi the next day advises the man to bring another cow into the house...
...politically conservative sect of Jews from their hometown turned out in full force for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in the 2000 Senate race, casting 1,359 votes for the former first lady and just 10 for her opponent Rick Lazio. Soon after the election, the local rabbi of the Skver sect was soon granted a personal meeting with the president to discuss the commutations. All four men were set free--and this time around Clinton appeared to barter votes, as opposed to cash, for pardons...
...next session came four months later, after the sect had delivered nearly 1,400 votes for Hillary and only 12 for Lazio. On the morning of Dec. 22, Grand Rabbi David Twersky and an associate went to the White House and tearfully appealed to the President to pardon Benjamin Berger, David Goldstein, Jacob Elbaum and Kalman Stern. Hillary attended the meeting in the White House Map Room but insists she did not participate in the conversation. "I did not play any role whatsoever," she told the Associated Press. "I had no opinion about...
...Rabbah and Rabbi Zeira had a festive Purim meal together, and became intoxicated. Rabbah got up and cut R. Zeira's throat. The next day Rabbah asked for mercy, and R. Zeira was revived. The following year, Rabbah said to R. Zeira, 'Come, and let us have a festive Purim meal together.' R. Zeira said to him, 'A miracle does not occur every time...
...Rabbi Shai A. Held '94 of Hillel closed the service by leading the audience in the singing of a traditional Jewish song...