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Obama's emissary Joe Biden tells Yeshiva Beth Yehudah dinner
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Farmington Public Schools board race returns incumbents plus
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Gem Theatre to host The All Night Strut Holiday Show written by a
nice little Jewish girl. See page 55.

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'Hate In His Heart'

The "Underwear Bomber" is just the latest defendant
courtroom artist Carole Kabrin has drawn for TV news.
David Sachs I Senior Copy Editor

Portrait of a Young Jew, Rembrandt

van Rijn, c. 1648, oil on panel.

Semitic
`Savior'?

Like so many other aspects of his life
and work, Rembrandt's connection to
the Jews has been sentimentalized,
overestimated, misappropriated,
criticized, dissected – and debunked.
But maybe the Jews in Rembrandt's
art are hidden in plain sight, clearly
visible in depictions of his favorite
Jewish protagonist of all. That's the
thesis of "Rembrandt and the Face of
Jesus," a provocative exhibit opening
Nov. 20 at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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ourtroom artist Carole Kabrin doesn't joke about
the ineffectual Underwear Bomber — Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab.
The radical Islamist terrorist, aboard a Northwest flight
from Amsterdam to Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009, attempted
unsuccessfully to ignite powerful plastic explosives hidden

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in his privies just before the
The defiant "Underwear
plane landed, burning himself
Bomber" flashing the
in the process.
soles of his shoes
"I'm sitting in court drawing
toward Federal District
him, and I couldn't comprehend
Judge Nancy Edmunds
what would motivate a 25-year-
during his trial in
old, well-educated man from a
Detroit — an act of
nice, well-to-do Nigerian fam-
extreme contempt in his
ily to feel so much hate in his
Islamic culture.
heart:' she said.
"So much hate that he would seek out Al Qaida for the
purpose of attacking the United States — and choose
Christmas morning to bring down a plane, killing himself
and nearly 300 people on board and, no doubt, little children
in their homes below, opening their presents."

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