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conversation
A little coffee and a lot of talk
Jewish Journal
July 11, 2016
A handful of people sit around a table in a café in downtown Jerusalem – their espressos and lattes in front of them.
Bibi says he and Obama had ‘good conversation’
Jewish Journal
September 13, 2012
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his one-hour, late-night phone call with President Obama was \”a good conversation.\”
The choosers
Rob Eshman
April 29, 2010
Last month, I was eating dinner alone at a neighborhood pizzeria when I overheard a conversation that made me stop mid-tongue burn.\n
What Men Want (To Say)
Mark Miller
June 17, 2004
How much more interesting the first date would be if we both were to communicate our true emotions. Still, those actual thoughts and feelings are definitely present, whether uttered or not. They\’re simply bubbling under the conversation\’s surface; biding their time until we feel more comfortable and trusting with one another.
Danger in Not Knowing Our Story
Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
April 15, 2004
Claire Luce Booth, the wife of the owner of Luce Publications, reported a frank conversation with a Jewish friend. Booth said, \”I must admit being positively bored by all this talk of the Holocaust and its constant repetition of Jewish suffering.\” The Jewish friend replied, \”I know just how you feel. I feel exactly the same way about the Crucifixion.\”
Each would like to see the other\’s story go away. But neither will go away. Golgotha and Auschwitz, the Crucifixion and the Holocaust, remain the dybbuk of our culture. They must both be confronted and understood.
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