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Joseph Berger

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Kenya The New York Times entertainment
19 Aug 2024
There are notes and letters from other icons of the 1960s. Cards from John and Yoko. A letter from Allen Ginsberg, the poet, offering to help him raise defense money. A plea by Norman Mailer to the governor of New York, seeking executive leniency on his behalf.
Steal This Archive? Abbie Hoffman's Papers Become a College Collection
Kenya The New York Times world
19 Aug 2024
They are a religious community known for clinging to 18th-century fashions and mores — strict rules that keep men and women apart and constraints on attire, with men favoring black suits and formal hats and women in long sleeves and long skirts.
How Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Rafi Eitan, the canny Israeli spymaster who commanded the Nazi-hunting team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and many years later was unmasked as the handler of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty to passing on more than 1,000 secret documents to the Israelis, died Saturday in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was 92.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Albert Vorspan, who steered the Reform movement and other Jewish organizations toward immersing themselves in social causes, particularly the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans and opposition to the war in Vietnam, died Sunday in New Paltz, New York. He was 95<em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">.</em>
Albert Vorspan, 95, Dies; Rallied Reform Judaism for Social Justice
Kenya The New York Times world
6 May 2019
Alone among the grand rabbis of the Hasidic world, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub had no ample beard, just a few short wisps of facial hair framed by long sidelocks. He could not produce children, and his voice had a higher pitch than that of his rabbinical counterparts.
Menachem Mendel Taub, grand rabbi and Holocaust survivor, dies at 96
Kenya The New York Times world
25 Mar 2019
Rafi Eitan, the canny Israeli spymaster who commanded the Nazi-hunting team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and many years later was unmasked as the handler of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty to passing on more than 1,000 secret documents to the Israelis, died Saturday in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was 92.
Rafi Eitan, Israeli spymaster who caught Eichmann, is dead at 92