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Yitzchak Shamir was a 1930s refugee, a 1940s revolutionary, a 1950s spy, and later a politician — and prime minister — who made no effort to be loved or to craft an image. Diminutive, barrel-chested, with a face like a clenched fist, he showed just how tough a shtetl Jew could be. Never as eloquent, […]

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This time the cabbie’s name was Mordechai. Moti for short. “Ask me anything,” he said from behind the wheel, after he so graciously accommodated me by stubbing out his cigarette. It turns out he’s a Jerusalemite. Born and raised. Grew up in Bakka, in fact. That’s right, on Reuven Street, that wide boulevard with the […]

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Rabbi Laura Geller’s innovative creation of 13 “merit badges” which defined the path to the bar/bat mitzvah ceremony recalled for me my exciting years as a Boy Scout decades ago (“URJ Overhauling The Bar/Bat Mitzvah,” Editor’s column, June 22). It made me wonder whether the “terminal degree” function of the bar/bat mitzvah could be replaced […]

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