Sources: Jewish Power: Inside the Jewish Establishment, J.J. Goldberg; The Modern Jewish Experience, Dr. Jack Wertheimer; The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, Mearscheimer & Walt NO LOBBY IS FEARED MORE or catered to by politicians than the Jewish Lobby. If a politician does not pl...
Pythagoras founded a school near what is now the port city of Crotone in southern Italy, which was named the Semicircle of Pythagoras. Followers, who were sworn to a code of secrecy, learned to contemplate numbers in a fashion similar to the Jewish mysticism of Kaballah. In Pythagoras' philos...
He was big, muscular – and very determined. (And, perhaps, he didn’t much like the talk of ‘lynching’.) The Aussie soldier put down his glass of beer – a serious move in any situation – and challenged Gately: “Oh, yeah? And how’s that?”“There’s a guy, a guy they ...
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Yeshiva University is a private college rooted in the Jewish tradition with four campuses located in the heart of New York City. While Yeshiva is synonymous with NYC, more than 600 incoming undergraduates begin their college experience with a year of Torah study in Israel at the university’s ...
It was his father from whom he proudly took the name "Dracula" ("Son of the Dragon"). Tepes was no vampire, although one historic account details how he drank a victim's blood [source: West Grey Times]. And Tepes certainly wasn't immortal (it's unclear how he died), as Stoker's...
is this whole concept of debt forgiveness is formalized in Hammurabi’s Code in any number of places in Mesopotamian Bronze Age society. It eventually found its way into the Jewish tradition, the Jewish literature that now we think of as the Old Testament or the Pentateuch. Could you describ...
Glockenbachviertel, once home to millworkers and a Jewish Community, then to the gay community, is one of Munich’s most attractive neighborhoods. One can still find a thriving gay community, and the neighborhood is considered chill, modern, and non-judgmental....
Twisted Sister in 'Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985)' Subscribe toUltimate Classic Rockon They had much in common, according to Snider. He noted how Reubens developed the Pee-wee character in the ‘70s but was working to appeal to college audiences, not children. “Twisted Sister wasn’t go...
Her assumptions about Simon Tikhman would end up, thankfully, being incorrect. But Foster’s early social media investigation into her new crush did not uncover a big part of his identity: He was Jewish. That didn’t matter to her — but the fact that she was a gentile mattered to h...