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Another Oil Miracle

Judy Zeidler November 21, 2002

Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, is a time to recall the miracle that occurred more than 2,000 years ago, and celebrate the discovery of the small amount of oil that burned for eight days, the amount of time needed to prepare pure oil from the local olive trees to rekindle the flame. That miracle is the focus of the Chanukah celebration that begins at sundown Friday, Nov. 29. Was it also a miracle that this event occurred at this time, since the months of November and December are the usual time for the olive harvest?

History Comes Alive

Ruth E. Gruber August 29, 2002

Italian scholar Francesco Spagnolo is keenly aware of the long-standing Jewish presence in Italy.

\”Never before the creation of the State of Israel did Jews of so many varied origins live together, and in such a stimulating, if at times threatening, environment as in the land they called in Hebrew \’I-Tal-Yah,\’\” he says.

\”I-Tal-Yah\” — Island of Divine Dew in Hebrew — means Italy in Italian, a land where Jews have lived for more than 2,000 years and which has seen layer after layer of immigration from all over the Jewish Diaspora.

A Nuclear Iran: Still the Greatest Threat

Rep. Jane Harman June 6, 2002

President Bush has just completed a historic series of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In Moscow, and a few days later in Italy, they signed accords to reduce each nation\’s nuclear stockpiles and increase Russian cooperation with NATO. Much was accomplished, but a major item was left on the negotiating table: Russia\’s continuing assistance to Iran\’s nuclear and missile programs.

Time With Zeffirelli

Naomi Pfefferman May 13, 1999

Based in large part on his 1986 autobiography, the movie revisits Zeffirelli\’s childhood before and during World War II, when he was an orphaned, illegitimate child adopted by a group of feisty expatriate Englishwomen and by a wealthy Jewish-American art collector in Florence.

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