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...Nahum Vaskevitch and David Sofer were well known respectively in London and Jerusalem financial circles, where they seemed the very models of the modern investment wizard. Less known to their colleagues -- in fact, their deep, dark secret -- was the amount of time they spent in frequent, terse phone conversations. Last week the subject of their calls became the stuff of scandal when the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Vaskevitch, 36, the head of international mergers in Merrill Lynch's London office, and Sofer, 46, an Israeli stock speculator, with ringing up more than $4 million in illegal profits from...
...provided a strength that enabled Judaism to avoid factionalism during the Muslim and Christian persecutions of the Middle Ages. The Guide of the Perplexed influenced the metaphysical speculations of Thomas Aquinas and other Christian scholastics while being largely ignored by medieval Judaism. But for modern Jews, says Biblical Scholar Nahum Sarna of Brandeis University, Maimonides provides "the model of a person who is able to accept a religious position without compromising on intellectual honesty and freedom of inquiry...
...Complete Stories, Nahum N. Glatzer, editor -The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco -Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Peter De Vries Some Tame Gazelle, Barbara...
...Complete Stories, Nahum N. Glatzer, editor •The Name of the Rose, Umber to Eco •The Philosopher's Pupil, Iris Murdoch Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Peter De Vries
...DIED. Nahum Goldmann, 87, Zionist leader for nearly half a century and one of the most outspoken critics of Israeli policies, from Ben-Gurion's to Begin's; in Bad Reichenhall, West Germany. Co-founder and president of the World Jewish Congress from 1949 to 1977, Goldmann negotiated the 1952 reparations agreement with West Germany that resulted in payments of some $822 million to Israel and its Holocaust survivors. Goldmann repeatedly advocated peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Israelis, saying, "There can be no future for the Jewish state unless agreement is reached with the Arabs." And in July...