Word: rith
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...suggests, this evil can hopefully be corrected. Most of the townspeople refuse to accept that Laramie is homophobic—it’s “just not that kind of place.” However, one student—a Muslim girl named Zubaida Ula (Leslie Rith-Najarian ’12)—disagrees. “We need to own this crime,” she said. “We are like this.” Although Ula was referring specifically to Laramie, her words can be applied more broadly to the current American...
DIED. Elliot Welles, 79, Vienna-born Holocaust survivor who, as longtime director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League's task force on war criminals, became one of the most influential and relentless Nazi hunters in the U.S.; in New York City. Welles got his start seeking to avenge the murder of his mother, who had been executed in the woods near Riga, Latvia, where his family had recently been deported. Haunted by the face and name of the officer who ordered her transport, Welles, with the help of the Justice Department, tracked him down in Germany--where...
...When it reaches a certain crescendo, you know it," observes Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, who fired off a letter to Lieberman calling his remarks "inappropriate" and "unsettling." But the vice-presidential nominee was just getting started. He praised the Democrats' prescription-drug plan as a way to keep the Fifth Commandment to honor thy father and mother, likened Al Gore to Joseph for shepherding the surplus to prepare for lean years ahead, and cast Clinton as Moses for parting the Red Sea with his economic program. The latest battle over the appropriate...
...political campaign and the political arena," Foxman told the New York Times. "There's nothing wrong with somebody professing their faith and going to church or synagoue, but this is almost hawking it." So what about this, from Bush in Washington Monday at a B'nai B'rith convention (of which the ADL is a division)? "Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice and inclusion and diversity without division. Jews and Christians and Muslims speak as one in their commitment to a kind, just, tolerant society." Foxman said...