Word: kaddish
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...every day save the Sabbath, Cohn lectures the apes on the obligations of freedom, the American Constitution, the Big Bang, the nature of evil and other elevated subjects. On Passover he conducts a Seder for the sapient monkeys, except for the intractable gorilla, who will attend only to the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...
...German conquest of Europe and of the eventual liberation, the sound track hammering home the pounding of Luftwaffe bombs. Whipped by a cold wind, the survivors broke into songs like I Believe, sung by their relatives on the way to the gas chambers. The group then recited the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...
Folk Singer Joan Baez sang Oh Freedom. Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin led a rousing chorus of We Shall Overcome. Elie Wiesel, author of many books on the Holocaust, recited Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. Actress Liv Ullmann gave a pint of blood for Cambodian refugees...
...walked past neatly tended mass graves at the site of the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hannover, where an estimated 30,000 Jews died during the years of Nazi terror. While his German-born wife Leah, who fled the country as a child, looked on, Rabin recited the Kaddish, the traditional Hebrew prayer for the dead. The Premier also laid a wreath of blue and white carnations -the national colors of Israel-at the foot of a memorial plaque...
...handsomely. He is without doubt the U.S.'s finest native-born conductor. As a man of music, he has always radiated a special charm and authority in making the worlds of the classics and pop complement each other. As a composer, he is above all versatile; if his Kaddish Symphony (1963) was something less than a masterpiece, his West Side Story (1957) was that and more-a turning point in the history of musical comedy. All these things combined to make Bernstein an exciting choice to write the commemorative work for the memorial opening of Washington's John...