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Israel Shenker, born on June 6, 1925, in Shanghai, China, was an outstanding journalist. He had a significant impact on the Chinese journalism scene, with his reporting covering various fields such as politics, economics, and society. Shenker worked in the Chinese journalism for decades, known for his in-depth investigations and keen insights.

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“Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.”

Writing Travel Affair Yearning Rope Voyages

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“Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain — nothing is spared them.”

Pain Difficult Pleasure Virtue Impossible Jew Vices Confusion Awkward

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“America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.”

Way America Past Morning Thousand Tradition Ancient Customs Inventing Nightfall

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“In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.”

Men Sin Fate Divine Morality Bible Rewards Prosperity Punishment Righteousness Misfortunes Commandments Persuading Reward And Punishment

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“At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.”

World Two Birth Catholic Population Squares Theologian Council Birth Control Roman Catholic

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“God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.”

Children Problem Support Blessing Disadvantages Greatest Blessings

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“A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce on grounds of impotence, denial of conjugal rights, or unreasonable restriction of her freedom-for example, preventing her from attending funerals or wedding parties.”

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“It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.”

Men Should Believe God Accepting Leaving Disregard

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“Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.”

Reason Common Accepting Humility Concerned Humble Common Sense Rational Faithful Sophisticated Commandments Systematic Be Humble Accepting God

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“Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.”

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“Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region.”

Earth Language Quality Variety Charm Regions Rhetoric Vocabulary Stunning Down To Earth Spelling Syntax Yiddish Pronunciation

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“A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one angel; even if 999 parts of that one angel's report were unfavorable, God would hearken to the favorable part.”

Ifs Men Said Century Angel Mercy Accounts Reports Rabbi

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“The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.”

Men Would Be Prayer Heard Makers Ignored Reciting Pedants Invocation

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“Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.”

Reality Existence Virtue Acceptance Supreme Being Real Speculation Philosophic Supreme Being Monotheism

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“The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.”

Pleasure Moral Drink Desert Restoration Merry Prohibition Sabbath Oasis

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“In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.”

Stuff Tradition Devotion Scholarship Defying Jewish Tradition

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“At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship's hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.”

Firsts Moments Next House Sin Masters Ships Fragile Thread Spiders Visitors Stout Passerby

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“The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge.”

People Firsts Kind Earth Choices Nations Challenges Virtue Groups Divine News Jew Chosen Superiors Arrogance Superiority Suggestions Good News Tribute Selected

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“Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.”

Men Courses Imagination Limits Every Man Theology Portions Exaggeration

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“One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ.”

Men Firsts Children Said Wisdom Law Opinion Study Wise Balls Sage Rabbi

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About the Author

Born: June 6, 1925
Died: June 9, 2007
Known for: Reporter
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