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Foxman cited the stabbing death of a Jewish scholar, Yankel Rosen-baum, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn at the height of Black-Jewish tensions in New York City in the summer of 1991 and a shooting attack on followers of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson, as they drove along the Brooklyn Bridge...
Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin...
...Menachem M. Stern, who owns six cabs, said taxi drivers work very long hours to try to make ends meet but do not want to increase fares...
...faction within the Hasidic sect, however, takes an entirely opposite position. Even if you haven't seen the full-page advertisements in the New York Times, you might know that Rebbe Menachem M. Schneerson, head of the almost evangelical Lubavich sect of Hasidism, is revered as the Messiah by thousands of his followers. In fact, more people may now believe the nonegenarian rabbi to be the Messiah than believed the same of Jesus of Nazareth at the time of his death...
...wisest have always known that a settlement imposed by outsiders rarely holds, that the end of enmity requires that the combatants themselves desire it. They know too that the glow of face-to-face agreements invariably fades as the vital enabling details are fashioned. Thus while Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin reached beyond Washington's mediation in the 1970s, cementing the eventual Egyptian-Israeli treaty required Jimmy Carter's skill at Camp David. The play today is similar. As only they could, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin have set the course, but America's continuing involvement is inevitable...