Word: wittmann
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...past few years have seen a surge of interest in Judaism among non-Jews as well, especially in the countries with the smallest surviving Jewish communities: Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. ``In this country if you're Jewish, everybody loves you,'' says Sylvie Wittmann, a tour guide who takes groups through Josefov, the old Jewish quarter of Prague. ``They think you're Franz Kafka...
...Jewish community is minuscule--numbers range from the officially registered 1,400 up to an estimated 3,000--hundreds more are showing an interest in finding Jewish roots or, for those who have none, in converting. At Beit Simcha, or House of Joy, a Jewish cultural center founded by Wittmann, as many as 200 young people turn up for holidays or social gatherings. It is impossible, she says, to know how many are actually Jews. ``Most of the young people don't have any Jewish background,'' she says. ``What they know comes from reading magazines...
...every excess. After the election, Reed scurried to recoup. "This stealth thing is bad for the movement," he announced. "It isn't the future. It's the past, if anything." Reed struggled to practice diversity, conservative style. When he opened a Washington lobbying office, he appointed a Jew, Marshall Wittmann, to head it. In last spring's New York City school board elections, Reed attracted some Hispanic and African-American activists and got cooperation from the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Christian Coalition also advertised its participation...
Swaggart's basic defense, his lawyers say, is that any charges he made were factual. Says attorney Phillip Wittmann: "It's a very simple case to defend...