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son, the rebbe who made Chabad
the extraordinarily well-known sect that
it is today (despite the fact that num-
ber-wise, Lubavitchers are nowhere
near the largest group of Chasidim).
# 1 0) Do you know what the follow-
ing men have in common:
S.Y. Agnon (1888-1970),
Israeli author
Shalom Aleichem
, (1859-1916),
Yiddish humorist
I Levi Eshkol
(1895-1969), Israeli
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prime minister, from
= 1963-69
I Harry Houdini
(1874-1926),
magician
Erich Segal (1937 - ),
author
Stephen S. Wise
(1874-1949),
founder of the Free
Synagogue in New
York City
Harry Houdini
Answer: All were the
sons of rabbis.
#11) Karl Marx
(1 . 818-1883), the
founder of "scientific"
socialism and author,
i with Friedrich Engels,
of Das Kapital and
The Communist Mani-
: festo, was the son of
a German-born father
I who converted to
Christianity.
Karl's father, Hein-
I rich, was an attorney
who never expressed
Karl Marx
!any interest in
Judaism. He was
baptized a Protestant in 1817 so
that he would be able to practice
law. (Heinrich Marx lived in the
Rhineland, where all Jews had had
their rights repealed following
Napoleon's defeat). Heinrich subse-
t quently had all eight of his children
baptized in the church, as well.
# 1 2) The "father" of the H (hydro-
! gen) Bomb was Edward Teller, a
I native of Hungary who settled in the
United States after Adolf Hitler's rise to
power. Teller was part of a team of
scientists, working under J. Robert
Oppenheimer at Los Alamos, N.M.,
during World War II. The two were
often at odds; Oppenheimer felt the A
(for atom) Bomb should be given pri-
ority, while Teller advocated research
on the H Bomb.
# 1 3) After his
wife safely gives
birth, a father is
obligated to say a
special bracha,
blessing, on her
behalf. Called the
Birkat HaGomel, it
thanks God "Who
metes out good-
ness to the unde-
serving and who
has dealt kindly
with me." This is
not to suggest that
new mothers are
undeserving."
Rather, the word is
meant to show
humility.
Birkat HaGomel
is recited by those
who have been
t; saved from dan-
ger, and is said
by a husband as
a reminder that
§ giving birth can
be a perilous
experience and
that a safe recov-
ery should never
be taken for
granted.
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# 1 4) Avraham is
first introduced in the Torah as Avram
(it is changed when he becomes a
Jew). While the letters aleph and vet
(which spell "father") are found in
both names, there is no exact transla-
tion for "Avraham" (though there are
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