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Long lasting or not, the controversy last week gave the Administration a severe buffeting. In Manhattan, an annual Holocaust service was moved from a synagogue to Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum, where an overflow audience of 5,500 heard Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, declare, "A courtesy call at a conveniently located concentration camp cannot compensate for the callous and obscene scandal of honoring dead Nazis." Dressed in black, 41 women who had survived the death camps marched silently to the stage and lighted six banks of candles. At a similar observance in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon...
Whereas in the Kafka original, Gregor Samsa wakes up in the body of a “monstrous vermin,” Auslander’s character, an 18 year-old Lubavitcher yeshiva student named Motty Aranson, finds himself “transformed in his bed into a very large goy.” Motty’s struggle to come to terms with his “burly construction worker” body reaches its humorous high point when he unzips his jeans and exclaims, “So that’s a foreskin...
...force. Israel's Shin Bet domestic security service believes that several dozen young settlers consider themselves bound by religious duty to protect the land of Israel, even if it means fighting against the state. "They don't give a damn about Israel," says Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, head of a yeshiva whose students divide their time between Jewish studies and army service. "There's a real danger they will turn to political violence...
...reason that Summers is ‘congratulating’ Harvard is because the University did not fire its one tenured Fifth Amendment witness,” says Ellen Schrecker ’60, a professor at Yeshiva University and the author of No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities...
...lobbying firms. Mark Ghermezian went into marketing. Three years ago, when running for senior-class president at his high school in Edmonton, Canada, Ghermezian tacked campaign posters over urinals and discovered that this placement could be quite effective. Now 20 and a part-time student at Yeshiva University in New York City, he runs Flush Media, which places full-color print ads in stalls and above urinals. His primary venues are in Canada at places like Calgary International Airport, but he also has a contract with 130 New York Sports Club locations along the East Coast. So far, clients include...