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...really knows where the text of Kol Nidre originated, but throughout Jewish history, the legal loophole has been a useful one. The service for Kol Nidre was put to use in medieval Spain, for example, when recently Christianized Visigoths began "encouraging" Jews to convert to Catholicism--and threatening them with death if they declined the offer. Facing these appealing options, many Jews publicly converted while continuing to live secretly as Jews. Faced with the fact that so many of them had made false vows before God, Jews took advantage of the Kol Nidre formula, knowing that if they appeared...
...colleagues have tested thousands of Pennsylvania newborns for inherited metabolic disorders during the past five years and in the process discovered that more than half the children with glutaric aciduria are not of Amish descent. In fact, Morton points out, many countries, including Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Israel, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Canada and the U.S., have clusters of children with glutaric aciduria...
...ironic it was to read an editorial decrying "The American Invasion" (Sept. 17) of "Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Levi's Jeans" in Spain in the same issue that carried an article outlining the steps to bring McDonald's to Harvard Square. By keeping stores and restaurants in Harvard Square diverse and uncommon, it would seem the Harvard Square Defense Fund is doing the students of Harvard as great a service as it provides Cambridge residents. Who would want to go to school, or live, in a mall? Many people, from the teenage punks to the Nobel laureates cited...
...your article "The American Invasion" (Sept. 17), you mistakenly claimed Pamela Lee for the United States as an export to Spain. Actually, Pamela Lee is from British Columbia, Canada, and, thus, you might want to write another article on Canadian entertainment exports to the United States...
...Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella funded Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World. In return, some 500 years later, we repay them with Cokes, Big Macs and Pamela...