Word: yehudah
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...reporters that the bulldozer "rammed into the bus again and again. Two babies flew towards me; I was in shock. I don't know how I made it out alive. We flipped over until a wall stopped us." It is believed that the killer was headed toward the Machaneh Yehudah open market, teeming with shoppers at the noon hour...
...present, Bagneris is settled, making her home in Jamaica Plain with Andrea, Andrea's dog Mutleigh and their two cats, Lillith and Yehudah, (the latter an "orange ball of fur" named after the symbol for the tribe of Judah--the lion). Once again Bagneris's patented confident grin emerges as she discusses her mentor, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and her insistence that she attend graduate school, (she's a Women's Studies and Afro Am concentrator) and her own varied interests in the "3 A's"-- activism, art and academia...
...leather armchair, Rabbi Philip Berg, 68, is presiding over a hushed celebration of the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkoth. As the garden party proceeds, he remembers when he saw the Light. "When you meet your master, it takes but a minute," says Berg, referring to the late, hallowed Kabbalist Yehudah Brandwein. "The Light simply turned on." The enlightenment was passed on by marriage as well: Brandwein's niece became Berg's first wife. Since Berg met Brandwein in 1962, the Brooklyn-born leader of the Kabbalah Learning Center has pursued a single mission: the dissemination of Kabbalah to mankind...
...channel for God's word. Berg has written the bulk of the works that make up the center's core curriculum. That is a disturbing monopoly to critics who dispute Berg's theology. Berg traces the center's roots to two Israeli rabbis, the late Yehudah Ashlag and Brandwein. But Brandwein's son Avraham denies any connection between the center and Brandwein's legacy, and some scholars characterize Berg's teachings as New Age perversions, a sort of Kabbalah Lite cooked up for Americans...
...years ago, Israeli poet Yehudah Amichai wrote that he was greeted with surprise by Palestinian representatives in Europe when he said that it was difficult for him to engage in meaningful dialogue while demonstrators in Jerusalem chanted "Hitler was right!" in Arabic...