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...Israeli author and Jerusalem expert Schmuel Berkowitz suspects that it may already be too late. There are currently about 200,000 Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem, but the government doesn't regard them as settlers, as Netanyahu emphasized in Washington this week. It is doubtful whether any Israeli government could muster either the electoral mandate, or the manpower, to remove them, because there's a broad consensus among Israelis that at least the Old City should remain in their hands. And there are Israelis now so deeply settled in the middle of Arab neighborhoods, sometimes sharing the same building, that...
Before Warsaw's rabbinical court, to which orthodox Jews carry their disputes, one Aaron Taplitzky, modest building contractor, appeared last week with an unredeemed promissory note. The note was endorsed by one Schmuel Weinberg, and in Warsaw's Jewish circles the Weinbergs are wealthy, potent. Produced in court, Schmuel Weinberg turned out to be a baby six months old. But Contractor Taplitzky was unable to prove that Baby Weinberg had not signed the note. The Warsaw rabbis ruled that Baby Weinberg must pay Contractor Taplitzky-when Baby Weinberg comes...
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