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Let's Get Physical

Life. Yet, how many of us
Iff arc Antony
are guilty of rubber necking
exhorted the
and compounding the prob-
citizens of
lem.
Rome, "Lend
• Often, of late, we have
me your ears!" But I, like
been told by many to shoul-
Uncle Sam, want you, all of
der the duty of being
you.
responsible citizens. Not
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that we are asked to finger
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have on making colorful expres-
jerk reaction to events; just
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sions that we use each day.
be responsible. Speaking of
Assistant
• Many of us have found our-
responsibility, I wish that
selves in a hairy situation and
more of us would demon-
wished to escape by more than the
strate some when misstating old say-
skin of our teeth.
ings. For example, "Music has
• We look down on anyone who
charms to soothe the savage beast,"
feels he must brow beat someone to
not breast.
get what he wants. "Bully!" we shout
• We never seem to hesitate to eat
and we are not echoing Teddy
well when someone else is footing
Roosevelt.
the bill.
• If you are going to attempt a fix-
• If you truly want to give yourself
up project, I suggest you do accurate
a leg up toward weight loss, it might
measurements. I usually eyeball it
be good to remember the motto:
and the results speak for themselves.
"Waist not; want not." (OK, so I
(I know some great repair people
took liberties with that one, but I
because of this.)
just can't write without at least one
• People in my office are known
pun and when asked to toe the line
for having a nose for news. After all,
on this "frailty," I can't without feel-
that's what makes a paper great. And
ing like a heel.)
we do more than pay lip service to
If you can think of some others
getting the Ects.
like these, then I've got to hand it
• None of us likes to see the
to you.
report of an accident, let alone one
where the victim must be freed by
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f the four cities in the
Holy Land that were
known since the Middle
Ages as centers of Jewish
study, only one, Hebron, is not in
the 1967 borders of the State of
Israel. Can you name the other three
cities?

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Quotables

"Sometimes, I think people confuse
me with Lenny Kravitz, another nice
Jewish boy."
— Barry Manilow, joking at a
performance at the Fox Theatre in
Detroit, about the pop-rock singer.

"What's the point of re-creating some
family — there's hundreds, thousands
just like the Levines — unless we real-
ize what they experienced here has
some impact on our lives?"
— Steven Long, curator of the newly re-
created 1890s apartment of Jennie and
Harris Levine inside the Lower East
Side Tenement Museum in New York
City, as quoted in the Forward.

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) Wages Of Inequality

On the day a government report came out
denouncing the $100,000 to $150,000 a
year salaries of hundreds of top Israeli civil
servants, wheelchair-bound protesters — in
the 70th day of their sit-in for decent bene-
fits — accused the government of aban-
doning its promises.
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) This Is Whose Land?

A battle with deep historical roots is being
waged in the courts between kibbutzim
and social activists over property across the
country worth billions of shekels.
www.jewish.corn

) Focus On Argentina

As the Israeli government and the Jewish
Agency for Israel reach out to
Argentine Jews in distress, world Jewish
leaders are being asked to foot the bill.
www.jewish.com

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To topple those Al Qaida powers,
And guarantee victory's ours,
I'd airlift for free
Some cholent.* You'd see...
They'd die from the heartburn in
hours.

— Martha Jo Fleischmann

* traditional slow-cooking stew begun
before the Shabbat for use the follow-
ing day when cooking is prohibited.

