There are top-notch players with names like Berman, Fischman, Heimowitz, Oppenheim, Seidel, Gold, Levi, Sklansky and so on, which begs the question: What other regularly telecast sporting competition has such a strong Jewish presence?
About 95 percent of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer will die within five years, the highest mortality rate of any cancer.
Like his father, Daniel Pipes has a reputation for bluntness and a willingness to go against conventional wisdom — both in the academy and elsewhere. Whereas Richard Pipes sounded the alarm against appeasing the Soviets, Daniel Pipes preaches against working with radical Muslims, no matter how law-abiding, scholarly or open-minded they might appear.
There is a scene in Dina Zvi-Riklis\’ award-winning drama, \”Three Mothers,\” in which Gila Almagor, once a popular singer, stages a comeback concert to raise money for her sister, Yasmin, who needs a kidney transplant. At the start of the concert, she introduces herself as one of three sisters. \”Sixty years ago, my sisters and I were born in Alexandria, in Egypt. We\’re triplets,\” she says, with a coy smile. \”Triplets are like twins, but a lot harder.\”
Can the history of a nation be told through its music? If that nation has only been around for about 60 years, it\’s conceivable.
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