Word: yeshivas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Past HSI-sponsored events have included a discussion of the Jewish situation in Hebron, led by Eli Horovitz, dean of a Yeshiva in Hebron, and a discussion with Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, titled "The Also Peace Process...
...child who starts out toward greatness to wind up there. If a single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of both biology and biblical law at Yeshiva University in New York City: "I can make myself an Albert Einstein, and he may turn out to be a drug addict...
...seriously and without emendation. Perhaps Rita Lin needs to be reminded that these laws--which we obey seriously and without emendation--include loving ones neighbor, returning a lost object and giving charity to the poor. I remember what the rabbis used to tell me in the Orthodox yeshiva (school for higher Jewish education) in Israel that I attended for a year. One rabbi there explained to me once how it was wrong to borrow someone's pen and paper without asking permission. He said that someone who takes something without asking first is committing an act of selfishness. This rabbi...
...taught in my yeshiva to be humble and unassuming, to be reasonable and patient and above all to be respectful and pursue peace. I was not taught to hate or to destroy, and when a former member of the yeshiva was blown up by terrorists in Jerusalem, our rabbis did not tell us to go out and stage a revenge attack. And when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, may his memory be a blessing, was killed by a so-called religious Jew, a so called Orthodox Jew, the rabbis in my yeshiva all talked about how they could not sleep...
Just this May, outside the same settlement, 17-year-old yeshiva student David Boim was gunned down while waiting for a bus to return home from school. A few foreign news agencies mentioned him in passing as "a settler." The suspected killer, Amjad Hannoi, was picked up by the Palestinian Authority shortly after the attack; so far he has not been extradited, though an official request was filed by the Israeli government...