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...SHLOMO MINTZ has been a quickly rising talent in the United States since his debut at age 16 in Carnegie Hall. He has shown up everywhere from Mostly Mozart concerts with Yo Yo Ma at Lincoln Center to solo appearances with the Israeli Symphony. He recently recorded the Mendelssohn and Bruch (G minor) violin concerti. However, his most recent accomplishment, a recording of Kreisler pieces and arrangements, shows he lacks good taste and ability in program selection. These Kreisler shorts have been encore pieces for violinistic virtuosos since they were first recorded by Kreisler in the mid-1920s. They...
Repeated denials by archaeologists and other scholars that any graves exist on the controversial site met with incredulity among the ultraOrthodox. Israel's Chief Rabbi, Shlomo Goren, who had earlier issued a ruling forbidding the dig, made a dramatic appearance on national television, displaying a few teeth and photos of human bones, which he said he had gathered while secretly scouting the area. Said Goren: "I found the bones with my own hands. I dirtied two suits. I have a whole sack of bones I could have brought with me." The mounting opposition to the excavations caused Begin...
...Palestine Liberation Organization bracelet, but the transplant particularly offended many Orthodox Jews. To them, religious law forbids tampering with corpses in any way, either by transplants or autopsies, and last week they pursued their campaign to outlaw autopsies. The hard-liners are also infuriated at Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, who decreed that the kidney transplant was a mitzvah (worthy deed), because it was done to prevent a death. He adds: "We're not allowed to discriminate between Jews and non-Jews in the saving of a life...
...Shlomo Gazit is a major general in the Israeli Defense Forces and a fellow at the Center for International Affairs...
Major General Shlomo Gazit says he left his post as head of Israeli Military Intelligence to come to Harvard because "I felt tired and felt in urgent need for recharging my batteries...