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Jul.10.2012
And, as Kafka knew only too well, judgement is not necessarily justice. In fact he might make that comment even about God. The courts of man have now ground on for three years in Israel, concerning papers by Kafka which he had directed destroyed.
Now, Kafka being Kafka, he asked Max Brod, the...
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Jul.01.2012
Many of us struggle with the issue of religion, and in particular the evidence for or against the existence of a god, or indeed, a glowing afterlife. This topic is one I myself have wrangled with for years (and years, and years). To that end I share with you my own ‘spiritual...
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Jun.26.2012
As genealogists our task is to reach into the past. We find the father then we want the father's father but eventually we reach silence. Who were these people? One way to decipher who your ancestors were is by analyzing their names. The surnames (and first names) of ancestors will not unequivocally...
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Jun.21.2012
If Alice Walker objects to Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people, not permitting the publication of the ‘The Color Purple’ in Hebrew will not alter anything. There is much to be said about making a statement, and I agree that it is valid in certain cases, but not in this one:
“I would...
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Jun.14.2012
I live in the center of Jerusalem. I live and die for Jerusalem. I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Yet I could not afford to breathe the air here. It seems as though it wasn’t always this way. Thirty years ago when I came to this city it wasn’t this expensive. Today you should be a...
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Jun.07.2012
Agatha Christie has written a seldom read memoir titled Come Tell Me How You Live. She writes about accompanying her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan, on his expeditions in Iraq and Syria. Agatha is older than Max by about ten years, as I am with my husband Patrick, who is also an...
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May.31.2012
There would have been a lot of trouble saved if Kafka's best friend had burned all his manuscripts. But Kafka asked his friend, Brod, specifically because he knew the chore would not be done. And if Brod's express wishes that these manuscripts were to be placed in a reputable library or...
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May.14.2012
Also known in the New Testament as Elias, Elijah was an ancient prophet whose life and character is depicted in the Bible. Elijah spent many of his days at Mount Carmel and due to his hermitage nature; the Greek Church refers to Elijah as their Patron Saint of the Mountains. Mount Carmel (in Israel...
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May.09.2012
Another group having high percentages of the Rh-Negative blood factor are the Oriental Jews of Israel, which is unique because among the Chinese and Japanese, it is almost non-existent, maybe one out of a hundred people.
Suellen Ocean is the author of Secret Genealogy a how-to for tracing...
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May.04.2012
“Bantu” means “the people” and is used to define numerous African tribes with a variety of dialects. My old encyclopedia states that most of the black people "living in equatorial and southern Africa (except the Pigmies) belong to the great Bantu family. It is believed that originally the Bantus...
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