Rosh Hashanah 5758
Say What Again?
The year's top quotes
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MITE
Ehud Barak, a former foreign minister and Israel
Defense Force chief of staff, is elected head of the Labor c—'
Party ... Hebron erupts in violence several days after the
U.S. House of Representatives reaffirms its support for
an undivided Jerusalem as Israel's capital ... A majority of
federations ratify the plan for joint operating partnership
between the Council of Jewish Federations and the
United Jewish Appeal ...
The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that ter- N
minally ill people do not have a constitutional right to
physician-assisted suicide ... The U.S. Supreme Court
strikes down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a - -\
1993 federal law aimed at curbing governmental inter-
ference in religious practices ... The Reform movement's
Central Conference of American Rabbis issues a call for
aliyah in a platform linking Reform Judaism and Israel
... The U.S. Supreme Court reverses its 12-year-old rul-
ing banning public school teachers from providing reme-
dial instruction in parochial schools ...
JULY
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A feel a great kinship to you because you and I are the two most tragic
figures in the world, except you have a future and I have a past."
— Leah Rabin, widow of the slain Israeli leader,
in a summer conversation with Princess Diana.
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T hey insisted on having their own street."
— Lewis Bernstein, producer of a joint Israeli-Palestinian version
of "Sesame Street," on how the show differs from its American prototype.
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what time does the parade start?"
— Manhattan residents, unaware that eight midtown
blocks were closed of to allow Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu to walk to synagogue.
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iiihsk an Israeli if he's dati [religious] or lo dati [not religious], and he'll tell you,
"The shul I'm not going to is Orthodox.'"
— The Jewish Agency's Avraham . Burg, speaking to a group
of West Palm Beach philanthropists about the state of religion in Israel.
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The Pathfinder space probe sends back spectacular
images from the surface of Mars on the Fourth of July ...
Violent clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli
soldiers spread throughout Hebron after a Jerusalem
woman distributes fliers depicting the prophet
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Mohammed as a pig stomping on the Koran ... The
stewards of Switzerland's Holocaust Memorial Fund
agree to make the first payments to the oldest and needi-
est survivors in Eastern Europe ...
Holocaust survivors around the world scan the list of
1,750 names of dormant accounts published by the
Swiss Bankers Association ... Russian President Boris
Yeltsin vetoes a bill that would have placed restrictions
on religious activity in Russia ... Italian military court
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gives a reduced sentence to two former Nazis ...
The United Nations General Assembly's overwhelming
passage of a resolution critical of Israeli settlement policy
underscores the Jewish state's increasing isolation as the
peace process remains stalled ... A twin suicide bombing
in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market kills 15 Israelis ...
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AUGUST
Builders for Peace, a Jewish-Arab enterprise founded to 1_ \
boost economic development in Palestinian self-rule areas,
shuts down...Israel's High Court of Justice orders the
Religious Affairs Ministry to allow a Reform Jewish
woman to take her seat on the Netanya religious council ...
Police apprehend a terror cell that planned to carry out sui--
cide bomb attacks in New York city subways ... An Israeli
government-appointed committee fails to meet its deadline
for recommending a resolution of the controversy over rec-
ognizing non-Orthodox conversions conducted in Israel ...
Hundreds gather in Basel, Switzerland to mark the centen-
nial of the First Zionist Congress, which lay the founda-
tion for the creation of the Jewish state ... Welfare reform
law goes into effect, cutting off many immigrants from
benefits such as food stamps.
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