Word: shalom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tomb of the Patriarchs was an obvious tinderbox. The military governor of Hebron, Colonel Shalom Goldstein, testified that 25 "incidents of friction" between Jewish and Muslim worshippers had been recorded there in the past year. Yet security discipline was slack. On the morning of the massacre, five of the six men who were supposed to be guarding the inside of the mosque were absent. Three arrived late, which one of them acknowledged was a common occurrence...
What Happens After I Die: Jewish Views on Life After Death. Rabbi Rifat Sonsino, Temple Beth Shalom, Needham. Riesman Center, 74 Mt. Auburn...
...discrimination between blacks and whites help ease the trauma. Until the mid-1980s rabbinic authorities questioned the Ethiopians' Jewishness. But the debate has subsided, and their Jewish credentials are now widely accepted. At least 400 Ethiopians have attended universities and 25 are officers in the army. Says Sergeant Shalom Sebate, who immigrated in 1985: "No one questions my authority. We're all Jews." Although the massive influx of Soviet Jews has overwhelmed the nation's resources, unemployment among the Ethiopians is lower than the national average, largely because of their willingness to take menial jobs. "We don't have doctors...