Word: sauls
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...Yiddish was the language of my home,” she added. Julia I. Bertelsmann ’09, who has taken both Literature and Arts A-48, “Modern Jewish Literature,” and Literature 153, “Saul Bellow and the New York Intellectuals,” with Wisse, said the scholar is “one of the most brilliant professors I’ve had.” “She provides opportunities for questions and disagreement that are not always the case at a university like this...
...Different Folks,” and “I ‘Know’ You, Biblical relations.” The game revealed that some modern scholars consider the relationship between David, a king of Israel, and Jonathan, the son of David’s predecessor Saul, to have been homoerotic. Another question asked contestants to name two popular Jewish dating Web sites. Jdate.com and Frumster.com—from the Yiddish word “frum,” meaning religiously observant—were acceptable answers. Topics also focused on more contemporary aspects of Jewish...
...turn out to be the harbinger of victory that activists like Dane hope it to be. She was the pro-immigrant caucus's poster alien, their best chance to highlight the cruelty of the current status quo. Her deportation will effectively separate her from her American-born son, Saul, 8, at least temporarily. While his mother was living at the church, it was Saul who represented her case at rallies and events around the country, and he is now in the care of the Chicago church's pastor and his wife. Arellano's allies hope that the story...
...with her citizen son. Her case and her cause have also at times been handled inartfully - the aggressive use of her young son as a mascot for the movement at times bordered on being exploitative. And finally, as opponents of Arellano rightly point out, she could always simply get Saul to come live with her in Mexico...
...backdrops are colored by Norman Rockwell, the soul of the Iowa caucus belongs to the heirs of Saul Alinsky and Phyllis Schlafly--the committed political organizers who have meant more to democracy than a hundred miles of red-white-and-blue bunting. Iowa is all about the power of small, highly motivated groups to influence politics beyond their raw numbers. And that's an American story as eternal as the Boston Tea Party, the abolitionists and the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott...