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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...
...light of our own 'culture.'" Concludes Mathews: "Are we submitting to the picture of God in Scripture? Or are we putting ourselves over Scripture and rewriting it in terms of our own preferences?" Similar sentiments have been expressed by Orthodox Rabbi Shalom Carmy of New York's Yeshiva University and Moyers panelist and Catholic priest-professor Alexander Di Lella...
BENEFICIARY OF THE YEAR: Anna Nicole Smith, widow of oilman J. Howard Marshall. Runner-up: Yeshiva University, willed millions for women's education by a frugal IRS auditor...
...would also visit her stockbroker. When she died at age 101 last January, Scheiber had converted a $5,000 nest egg into a $22 million fortune. And in death she proved herself extravagantly generous. Last week it was announced that she had bequeathed most of her fortune to Yeshiva University, a New York City school she never attended and where no one ever knew...
...When I saw the will, it was mind blowing, such an unexpected windfall," says Yeshiva's president, Norman Lamm, who revealed the gift at his school's annual Hanukkah dinner. "This woman has become a legend overnight, and her name will live on for generations...