Word: yeshivas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bootleg copies of answers to various Regents exams were being sold for as much as $2,000 a copy. A reporter was able to obtain the chemistry answer sheet in 15 minutes by placing two telephone calls. This was not the first case of exam scam. A former yeshiva student was recently arrested for selling copies of tests last year. If convicted, he could be sentenced to twelve years in prison...
Nothing short of mass expulsion will satisfy the more radical settlers. "The Jews who live here should be decorated for their patience," says Aharon Domb, 32, who runs a yeshiva in Hebron. From his bulging briefcase he pulls out an assortment of Palestinian weapons: rocks, metal spears, and spikes designed to rupture tires. By his count, 541 vehicles were damaged and 30 Jews injured in Hebron during April and May alone. "Look at what we have to live with," he says, displaying pictures of broken windshields and bleeding faces. "We accept that settling the land of Israel requires suffering...
...Shilo: "You can now read the Talmud the way any book is read. It is now a popular work." The director of the pluralistic World Union of Jewish Students, Daniel Yosef, says that "Steinsaltz has taken the study of the Talmud out from behind the closed doors of the yeshiva and given...
...guidance counselor at the St. Louis Block Yeshiva told The Justicethat his students may choose "a Harvard with a strong Hillel program" over Brandeis...
Rabbi Moses Tendler, professor of Jewish medical ethics at Manhattan's Yeshiva University, is no less affronted by what he calls the hiring of a "uterus for nine months." He maintains, "In the old days you could buy a whole person -- a slave -- to do with as you wished. Now, if these surrogate contracts are accepted, you'll be able to buy just a specific organ...