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In this article, I examine a curious chapter in the history of modern Jewish culture: the 1914 Berlin meeting of Zionist musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn with the philosopher Hermann Cohen. A shared belief in the redemptive power of aesthetics and the unique character of Jewish music briefly drew the two men together. Each saw in sound an unparalleled means by which to recalibrate Jewish difference in relation to Western civilization. Each identified music as the key to large-scale cultural and emotional Jewish renewal in the face of European modernity. Yet their ensuing argument revealed not only the political fissures in European Jewry but also the deeper philosophical contradictions within each man's respective theories and, more broadly, the unstable relationship between aesthetics and affect in modern Jewish culture.

This article examines the Israeli initiative in the 1950s to confer postmortem citizenship upon Holocaust victims. This commemoration initiative, which became a clause in the law establishing Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Center, failed. Jewish communities in the diaspora refused to make their dead an endowment to the State of Israel. Tracing the history of this extraordinary idea and the various discussions about it, I show that it was not merely a national Holocaust commemoration initiative, but a transnational legal, political and moral debate between a new nation-state and its diaspora regarding the terms and boundaries of a new national citizenship.

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In 1974, he returned to Boston and for five years resided at the Immaculate Conception Rectory. He then spent a year at St. Mary's Rectory in Boston, where he assisted in parochial ministry. When his health began to decline in April 1980, Fr. Loeffler moved to the Campion Center. He leaves two brothers, Rev. Richard A. Loeffler, CM, of Greensboro, N.C., and Rev. Charles M. Loeffler, SJ, of the Immaculate Conception Rectory in Boston's South End; and four sisters, Grace Jason of Weymouth, Ruth Schill of Tom's River, N.J., Rita Healey of Cambridge, and Sister Theresa, Discalced Carmelites, of St. Louise Home, Albany, N.Y.

[Ruby] was a highly skilled and valued office worker, and throughout her career she worked as secretary and administrative assistant for a number of different businesses. For many years, she and [Milton C. Chapman] also worked as a team managing a Radio Shack, which they owned in Jefferson City, Mo. Following their retirement, they traveled in their motor home during the winter months, spending their summers in New Hampshire. In 1988, they moved to Sebring, Fla., where they made wonderful friends and were very active in their retirement community, The Bluffs of Sebring. In 2002, Ruby and Milton moved to the White Rock Senior Living Community in Bow, to be closer to their son and his family.

Hatha yoga -- Kings Contrivance Community Association is offering Hatha yoga for experienced students. The cost is $120 to $130 for 10 weeks; the cost for drop-in attendance is $16 a class. Itsy Bitsy Yoga, a new Saturday program, is designed for parents and babies, ages 3 weeks and older. The cost is $69. Ballet and tap classes for children ages 4 to 6, taught by Sandra Duerr, are offered Mondays. A \"Holiday Dance With Me\" program for toddlers and an adult will be offered Dec. 20. Judy Milke leads parent-and-child classes for children ages 14 months to 4 years. Classes are offered Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, depending on the age of the child. A preholiday stress-reduction yoga class for beginner and advanced students, taught by Mary Frankos, will be offered from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. Wednesday and Dec. 13. The cost is $24 for two weeks; $16 a class to drop in. All skill levels are welcome. 410-381-9600.

Holiday lights -- Long Reach, Owen Brown and Hickory Ridge community associations will offer their Holiday Lights Tour for senior citizens from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 10. This year's event will feature a bus tour through the Symphony of Lights, a reception, a gift for participants and an appearance by Santa Claus. The event is free, but reservations are required. Buses will pick up seniors at Longwood House, Owen Brown Place and Hickory Ridge Place. Reservations on a first-come first-served basis will be accepted starting tomorrow. 410-730-8113. Hatha yoga -- Kings Contrivance Community Association is offering Hatha yoga for experienced students. The cost is $120 to $130 for 10 weeks; the cost for drop-in attendance is $16 a class. Itsy Bitsy Yoga, a new Saturday program led by Linda Dobry, is designed for parents and babies, ages 3 weeks and older. The cost is $69. Ballet and tap classes for children ages 4 to 6, taught by Sandra Duerr, are offered Mondays. Judy Milke leads parent-and-child classes for children ages 14 months to 4 years. Classes are offered Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, depending on the age of the child. 410-381-9600.

Perhaps [Toney] will have lost some weight by then. Never shy at the buffet table, Toney's face was puffy, his demeanor huffy. But at least he was honest when he was asked about his weight. All along, the goal has been for Toney to become heavyweight champion. If he beats [Rydell Booker] next month, Toney will become the No. 1- ranked contender to Klitschko's World Boxing Council belt. Somebody is going to have to give him a shot, like it or not. Last week Don King, who promotes [Lamon Brewster], said he would like to pit Brewster with Toney if Brewster beats Kali Meehan in a title defense Sept. 4.