Word: yeshivas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elegant apartment house. Others wearing helmets and flak jackets waited patiently in a few lined-up tanks and armored personnel carriers. Machine gun, tank and mortar fire were crashing back and forth down the Avenue Abdallah Yafi. Wandering pensively behind two tanks, Bruce, 23, a Brooklyn-born yeshiva student, was clutching a Hebrew Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other. "I back the government 100%," he said. "We've suffered so much from the terrorists for years. I feel we have no choice but to do this...
...catch it, his readers are not required to believe in demonology but merely to agree that much of life is otherwise inexplicable. Why would a devout Jewish husband tempt his beautiful new bride into adultery with a loutish footman? What could prompt a spirited girl to masquerade as a yeshiva boy and then marry a village's most eligible heiress? In The Cabalist of East Broadway, a morose old Hebrew scholar suddenly abandons New York City for a young wife and fame in Israel. Just as suddenly, he returns alone to his old haunts. He tries to tell...
...decade, even though only half the states allow state employees, including faculty at public universities, to bargain collectively, there were 750 unionized campuses. The vast majority were public institutions. Some private college faculties had been organized too. But in 1980 a Supreme Court decision on faculty unionization at Yeshiva University in New York City discouraged further efforts. The court held that Yeshiva professors are not employees but managers shaping school policy and thus not protected by federal labor law. As a result, administrators at many other private colleges do not feel compelled to bargain...
...tenacious 2,500 people still at Yamit have all been offered generous Israeli government compensation for leaving, and most have accepted. But some are still obdurate. Students at the town's yeshiva have hinted that they may barricade themselves inside their dormitory when the deadline comes. Says Tsuriel Biblil, 24: "I won't kill any soldiers, but I won't let anyone take me from here...
...public interest projects, major and modest. When Manhattan College, a Catholic institution, needed money recently, its fund-raising load was carried by GM's Thomas Aquinas Murphy, DeButts and Shapiro. A few months earlier the same three men, a neatly balanced ticket, did the same thing for Yeshiva University, a Jewish institution. They and others are prime movers of the Business Roundtable, which has replaced some more regressive groups as the premier public policy arm of corporate America. A few years ago, his peers selected Irv Shapiro to head the Roundtable. When Shapiro, who is a Jew, a Democrat...