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...student Twirckoff, Yom Kippur was always a day of dread." Thus begins Mark Mirsky's short story, "Lukshin Kugel" (in English that's noodle pudding). Twirckoff's dread--What does it mean to be a Jew?--sets the tone for this second issue of Mosaic, a literary magazine published by the Hillel Society...
...their situation. But if just one of them were lacking, the sufferings of mankind would poison even the souls of the newborn... For the Lamed-Vov are the hearts of the world multiplied, and into them, as into one receptacle, pour all our griefs." The descendents of Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, martyred in 1185, are granted the grace of one Lamed-Vov in every generation, and Ernie Levy is the last Just Man in his line...
...U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser showed special tolerance for a pair of his oldest supporters-Cairo's weighty (476 lbs. between them) publishing twins, Mustafa and Ali Amin, 47. Though they were formally stripped of their ownership of Cairo's most popular daily, the jazzy Akhbar el Yom (News of the Day), the Amins were allowed to keep control of the paper's twelve-man editorial board and were saddled with only one government representative, Amin Shaker, 37, once Nasser's secretary. But last week the twins found themselves deprived of their property in fact...
...Just Man that sometimes when he rises to heaven, "God must warm him for a thousand years between his fingers before his soul can open itself to Paradise." Author Schwarz-Bart imagines a familial dynasty of Lamed-Vov called the Levys. The first of the line, Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, forces himself to slit the throats of 250 of his coreligionists in an 1185 A.D. pogrom in York, England, rather than have them tortured or converted. After this follows an inexorable litany of torment, in which generation after generation of chosen Levys are burned, torn apart by horses, slashed...
...Jewish holy books for inspiration, spent each day at Barillet's rejecting and selecting pieces of glass, watching every move the artisans made as they went about their centuries-old task. The result was worth the effort: a majestic stained-glass window that is to be dedicated after Yom Kippur in the New Synagogue in the heart of Chicago's Loop (see color...