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Then on page 5 we read "It's just a matter of time until they make a tunnel that an elephant can walk through" ("Lions, monkeys take underground route to Gaza zoo," August 10). Another Chabad rabbi, a visitor from Israel and a native speaker of Italian, related that the prev...

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Published inThe Jerusalem post
Main Authors Weiss, Jeremy, Cohen, Jack, Altshul, Sharon, Berman, Irene, Milunsky, M U, Kimchy, Jacob, Singer, Sarri, Sukol, Todd, Gary, Fike, Susan, Elmi, Abdikadir, Jerusalem Post staff
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 11.08.2008
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Medved, Michael
Weiss, Jeremy
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Summary:Then on page 5 we read "It's just a matter of time until they make a tunnel that an elephant can walk through" ("Lions, monkeys take underground route to Gaza zoo," August 10). Another Chabad rabbi, a visitor from Israel and a native speaker of Italian, related that the previous day he had been walking past a cinema in Florence where The Passion of the Christ was playing when a man and his son emerged from the theater. The son pointed to the rabbi and asked his father: "Is that man a Jew?" "Yes," replied the father. "Then if he's a Jew, why does God let him live?" the boy asked. Our August 10 editorial "A day of responsibility" said the Wannsee Conference took place on Tisha Be'av. In fact, Herman Goering's letter charging Reinhard Heydrich to prepare "the complete solution of the Jewish question" was issued on the eve of the eighth of Av. The conference didn't take place until January 20, 1942.