Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout these stories the Holocaust has left an indelible impression on the lives of its survivors, even those who escaped its wrath beforehand. So just as the first-person narrator describes a woman's eye in "Sabbath in Portugal" as having "an embarrassment and a modesty which I did not know still existed," and then recalls his first love "whom I had never dared kiss, and who had been shot by the Nazis in 1943," so too, aging Harry Bendiner in "Old Love," thinks himself a fool to believe in God "After what happened to the Jews in Europe...
...Israelis in charge of Ras Sudr insisted that the Texans had to sign for the Arab Republic of Egypt. Well, no, said Engineering Consultant Billy Marcum of Dallas; he and his buddies were empowered to sign only for Mobil. Israeli Representative Meir Gueron replied that the Jewish Sabbath would begin soon. Unless Marcum agreed to represent Egypt as well as Mobil, the Israelis could not sign any transfer until after the Sabbath ended, 24 hours later. Agreement was finally reached. On behalf of a sovereign Arab nation, a Texas oilman received the field from Israel, with an Irish army captain...
Stephen's departure signaled sleep time for our section of the bus, and most dozed until daylight. Oakland observed the Sabbath as we passed through, and San Francisco was hardly more awake at 8:30 on a Sunday morning...
...concede. No matter how he pressed the opportunities. Kissinger failed to budge either side. The Secretary's mission ended in Jerusalem, where he had a series of intense meetings with Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who felt the issue so urgent that he summoned his cabinet to a rare Sabbath session. In the end, the Israelis decided that they could not make any further concessions...
Israeli secularists, who far outnumber religious adherents, often attack this quid pro quo. "Religious law infringes on my basic freedoms," says a Hebrew University student. "Just because the religious community doesn't want to ride buses on the Sabbath doesn't give them the right to prohibit others from riding...