The Alster Files: The Truth as I See it

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Gefen Publishing House Ltd, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 302 pages

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Contents

Tuviah Friedman and I In Search of Mengele
174
Cologne Revisited
182
The Apprenticeship
185
The Righteous Owner of the Dairy Store
188
Brothers
191
A Jack of Diamonds
196
The South
198
Kach
203

Reflections on the Rabbi
47
False Passport
54
The Green Line
58
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
60
Zeev Jabotinsky and Rabbi Kahane
64
Jewish Prisoners of Conscience
71
The Israeli Political Arena
86
Uncle Sam and His Money
91
Family History Germany
94
Divine Providence in Providence
112
My Army Days
113
Hebron
129
The Armenian Priest and I
137
Friends
139
Milk and Honey but No Unity
154
Black Widows
158
Why Wye?
161
Helmsley Palace
163
St Louis
168
The Holocaust Then and Now
170
Confrontation
208
Extremism
216
Yitzhak Rabin Before and After
219
Only Justice Shalt Thou Pursue
226
Anshei Emunah
243
The Old Man and His Shul
248
Reflections of an Old Man
251
Holland vs Bulgaria vs Denmark
253
I Was a Jailbird
261
IsraelJapan
266
Netanya and the Lubavitch
268
Temple Mount Activists
269
Trials and Tribulations of Tanya SuskinKahalani
Our Children
7
America Eastern Parkway
10
In Retrospect
17
And If Not Now When?
26
A Jewish Tragedy
29
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Page 73 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 6 - Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. 7 I am for peace : but when I speak, they are for war.
Page 249 - The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life — of whom shall I be afraid? When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.
Page 159 - There are six things which the Lord hates, seven which are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.
Page 249 - Psalm. 27 A psalm of David. The Lord is my light and aid; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers press against me to eat up my flesh — my enemies and my foes — it is they who stumble and fall. Even though an army were arrayed against me, my heart would not fear; though war should arise against me, still would I be confident.
Page 162 - when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world," and pledged "to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it."37 One year later, Arafat made the following announcement: "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.
Page 120 - ... stronger than lions to do the will of their Master and the desire of their Rock. May our God remember them for good with the other righteous of the world, and avenge the blood of his servants...
Page 75 - Compassion is the feeling of sympathy which the pain of one being of itself awakens in another; and the higher and more human the beings are, the more keenly attuned are they to re-echo the note of suffering which, like a voice from heaven, penetrates the heart, bringing to all creatures a proof of their kinship in the universal God. And as for...
Page 228 - The principle of equality prohibits the State from distinguishing between its citizens on the basis of religion or nationality,' Chief Justice Aharon Barak wrote. The principle also applies to the allocation of State land... The Jewish character of the State does not permit Israel to discriminate between its citizens.
Page 92 - Pharaoh that there would be seven years of plenty, followed by seven years of famine and that he'd better do something about it.

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