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...The exemption for religious students dates back to a compromise between Israel’s founder, David Ben-Gurion, and rabbis representing a few hundred ultraorthodox families in 1948....
...Yitzhak Yosef’s weekly sermons rarely make waves outside the cloistered world of Israel’s fervently religious ultraorthodox community....
...Like Clinton, who wrote in his memoirs that he loved Yitzhak Rabin like no other man, Biden’s support for Israel is deeply imprinted on his political DNA....
...Israel has been riven by polarisation and crisis before; in 2005, when the government of the day infuriated Jewish settlers by withdrawing from Gaza; in 1995, when Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated...
...The suspected hostage taker was killed, Colleyville police chief Michael Miller told a press conference....
...A room dedicated to the theological turf wars between reformist rabbi Leopold Stein, who allowed organs to be played in synagogues on the sabbath, and neo-Orthodox arch-rival Samson Raphael Hirsch, who fought...
...“The government needs to talk to the rabbis — they only listen to their rabbis, not to us,” said one police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity....
...At nearly 50 years of age, Yitzhak Pindrus would prefer the traditional life of an ultraorthodox Jew, sequestered in a religious school poring over the Torah far from the distractions of modern life....
...It’s like an Arthur Miller play gone large-screen, complete with act divisions, and Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar’s script has a Miller-worthy density of moral wit....
...Yitzhak Herzog, Israel’s centre-left opposition leader, called on Mr Netanyahu to retract his comments, which he called “a dangerous distortion of history that trivialises the Holocaust”....
...Mr Herzog and Ms Livni wanted to reassert the Zionism of Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president, and of Yitzhak Rabin. While pragmatically minded, they believed in Israel as a democracy....
...“We are not in an intifada [but] it could be that it will come to that,” Yitzhak Aharonovich told Israel’s Ynet news service on Wednesday....
...Jair Melchior, the chief rabbi of Denmark, said he was “disappointed” with Mr Netanyahu’s comments. “Terror is not a reason to move to Israel,” he said....
...Rabbi Yitzhak Goldstein, head of a Jewish seminary located at the site, said: “I have tolerance, I have understanding, but what I condemn is an aggressive change of the British status quo.”...
...A sea of men and women dressed in black religious garb prayed, as rabbis read prayers and psalms. Some young men carried signs saying: “Military service will not be forced upon us.”...
...The Crossing, by Andrew Miller, Sceptre, RRP£18.99 An enigma lies at the heart of Miller’s follow-up to his Costa-winning Pure: heroine Maud may be irresistible to posh Tim, who has a child with her, but...
...According to Aaron David Miller, “Nixon’s trip was a largely a farewell tour, a last hurrah following his administration’s deep involvement in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and the diplomacy that followed.”...
...Doreen Miller-Charlton, board member, Miller, the manufacturer. Robert Croft, cricketer. John Crosslé, founder, Crosslé Car Company. Peter Fraenkel, co-founder, Marine Current Turbines....
...When both the rabbi and the doctor warn the family that if Ruth attends the funeral there may be protests at the synagogue, they are thrown into turmoil....
...One of the airborne party, Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri, later declared that, “Thanks to the prayer, the danger is already behind us.”...
...www.tobagojazzfest.com Philadelphia Lee Miller The work of the American photographer Lee Miller is well documented through the 150 images comprising this exhibition at Philadelphia’s Museum of Modern Art...
...So Pope Benedict XVI will receive an invitation, as will Sir Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the UK. The grand mufti of Damascus, Sunni cleric Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, is also on the list....
...Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, unable to forgive the philosopher’s branding of the occupying army as ”Judeo-Nazis”, said he would refuse to attend the award ceremony....
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