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...Jews call the Temple Mount and Arabs know as Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary. These 35 acres, blocked in by ancient walls and topped by the glittering, gilded Dome of the Rock, are a strange and holy place, splattered all too often with blood. "It is," says Rabbi Nachman Kahana, who runs a nearby yeshiva, "the gateway to heaven." And as the world saw last week, a path to unimaginable hell...
...Rabbi Shai A. Held '94 recited Psalm 121 in Hebrew, and Tova A. Serkin '02, who is also a Crimson editor, recited it in English...
...Rabbi Robert D. Klapper read Psalm 130 in Hebrew followed by Rachel L. Brown '01 in English...
...taking every precaution not to make this political," said Klapper, a rabbi to the Orthodox prayer community...
...first chapter displays the narrative strategy she will employ throughout. A passage under the heading "My Father Writes" reads, "Rabbi Yochanan Schine, a student of the famous Chatam Sofer, was engaged to Esther Sophie Goldner Herschell, the granddaughter of the chief Rabbi of the British Empire. Esther and Yochanan were my great-great-grandparents. They migrated to Palestine and married in 1837 in Jerusalem." Under the heading "I Write," Eve tells the story of Esther's infatuation, in Jerusalem, with a baker and the nine-year love affair that ensues, with, almost from its inception, her husband's knowledge: "Yochanan...