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Heretic of the month: Jacob Frank.(Jacob Joseph Frank,)(Interview)
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American Jewish Life Magazine
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March 1, 2007
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- Michaelson, Jay
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He rejected the Torah (once threatening to defecate on it if angry rabbis didn't leave it alone). He converted to both Islam and Catholicism. He slept with his followers--and maybe even his daughter. He preached a nihilistic doctrine that saw this world as intrinsically corrupt, and believed that the best way to imitate God was to cross every boundary, transgress every taboo, and mix the sacred with the profane.
A crazed cult leader from Texas, Fiji, or Jonestown? No--Jacob Frank, the great Jewish heretic of the 18th century.
Frank's name is little-known today. His recorded oral teachings, a disorganized, thousand-page jumble called the Words of the Lord, have never ...
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FRANK GAINED STRENGTH FROM NEW ROOMMATE
The Boston Globe;
August 29, 1989 ;
Michael Kranish, Globe Staff;
787 words
...WASHINGTON - Rep. Barney Frank said yesterday that he gathered the strength...with," a 32-year-old business student who, Frank says, has changed his life dramatically. "That was the most important of all," Frank said of his discussion with Herb Moses...
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FRANK'S CAREER JEOPARDIZED, ANALYSTS SAY
The Boston Globe;
August 27, 1989 ;
Michael K. Frisby, Globe Staff;
787 words
...WASHINGTON - Rep. Barney Frank has gone from being a rising congressional...situation was apparent on Friday, when Frank -- who was more likely to be called brilliant...public officials and analysts said that Frank's predicament has revealed the problems...
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 "The People (London, England)")
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Why we all swooned when Frank crooned; Women reveal how they couldn't...
The People (London, England);
May 17, 1998 ;
Earls, John;
787 words
...FRANK Sinatra was married four times. But there were plenty of...resist the Sinatra charm... Marion Brush Schrieber, who dated Frank when he was 17 for three years until 1925 said: I was three...our time together taking long walks or necking in his car. Frank always wore a white hat with a gold anchor like ...
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THE REEL STORY ; Are the stripers biting today? A good person to ask is...
Albuquerque Journal;
October 2, 2008 ;
Toby Smith Journal Staff Writer;
787 words
...ELEPHANT BUTTE LAKE -- When Frank Vilorio watches someone catch a fish...the guy who won the Powerball jackpot. Frank -- no one calls him anything else...35,000 football fields. For 14 years Frank has been motoring people out on the Butte...
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Frank, Robert A.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
March 11, 1999 ;
147 words
......Andrew, Steven, Erin and Amanda Frank. Grandfather of Jacob Frank. Brother of Gerald (Anna) Frank, Diane (Ronald) Willgrubs, Willard Jr. (Jean) Frank, Karen (Daniel) Richards, Kathleen (Douglas) Banaszak, James Frank, Harry (Cindy) Frank, Michael...
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Ryane R. Frank
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
October 20, 2002 ;
120 words
...Ryane R. Frank, 28 Formerly of Racine Sunday...Services were Monday for Ryane R. Frank, who died Oct. 8. He was 28...parents, William and Ninna Frank of Racine; three brothers, Brandon Frank of Madison, Robert Olson of Milwaukee and Jacob Frank of Boulder, Colo.; four sisters...and his ...
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The House's Unimpeachable Witness; The Clinton Hearings, Annotated by...
The Washington Post;
March 27, 2003 ;
Mark Leibovich;
585 words
...Rep. Barney Frank is whispering to his colleague Maxine Waters...is also, as it happens, a day in which Frank's 86-year old mother, Elsie, is in the...about oral sex in front of my mother," Frank says to Waters, a fellow liberal on the...
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Frank's bets on the holidays as it works to reorganize.(Frank's Nursery...
Crain's Detroit Business;
September 3, 2001 ;
Snavely, Brent;
546 words
...Frank's Nursery & Crafts Inc., which is trying to emerge from...virtually all secured at this point,'' said Larry Lakin, Frank's co-CEO, vice chairman and CFO. ``Those orders were placed...done by the end of October, Lakin said, leaving 183 stores. Frank's is also phasing out craft lines unrelated to ...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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LET'S BE FRANK, HE'S SO SPECIAL; Thanks Pop, you turned cousin in to the...
The Daily Mail (London, England);
May 22, 2006 ;
787 words
...Byline: JAMIE REDKNAPP FRANK LAMPARD tells a story about Jose Mourinho...ball or who doesn't pass well enough. Frank does it all, and scored 18 goals in the...that was more than good enough, but now Frank has taken the role to another level. When...
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New Cedarburg police chief will be following in family footsteps Frank's...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
July 12, 1999 ;
JEANETTE HURT;
554 words
...August Frank, police chief of Cedarburg from 1937 to 1943, probably...Cedarburg Police Department that his grandson, Sgt. Tom Frank, will be taking over. "Grandpa had a lot of stories," Frank said, pointing to a photograph of his grandfather leading...
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Rep. Frank Hired Male Prostitute as Housekeeper;Lawmaker Says Aide Fired...
The Washington Post;
August 26, 1989 ;
Bill McAllister;David S. Broder;
787 words
...Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), one of the House's leading liberals...Capitol Hill apartment for prostitution. Frank, who is homosexual, said he had employed...thought I was Henry Higgins . . . ," said Frank, likening himself to the fabled English...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Frank's still a cracker at 70.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);
November 7, 1996 ;
Hanna, Conor;
761 words
...Funnyman Frank Carson celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday...lads, I'm gonna work until the day I die. Frank is still going strong, playing gigs, recording...a little bit longer to get rid of Uncle Frank. And even when I'm gone they'll have my...
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FRANK TELLS OF HIS DESPAIR DURING '89 SEX SCANDAL SAYS HE SOUGHT...
The Boston Globe;
August 14, 2004 ;
Frank Phillips, Globe Staff;
685 words
...US Representative Barney Frank acknowledged yesterday that for a brief...dysfunctional for five or six weeks," Frank said in a brief interview, referring...public forum to fight the allegations. Frank has said that in the past that he fell...
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Lenders pulled plug during our slow season, Frank's CFO says.(Frank's...
Crain's Detroit Business;
April 23, 2001 ;
Snavely, Brent;
507 words
...Frank's Nursery & Crafts Inc. lost support from its lenders...Morgan Chase & Co. and several other lenders closed Frank's credit line because the company no longer was meeting some...generating enough funds.'' The parent company of Troy-based Frank's, FNC Holdings Inc., filed for Chapter 11 ...
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The boyish charm, sparkling wit and brilliance of my good friend Frank
Evening Standard - London;
December 15, 2006 ;
ANDREW ROBERTS;
713 words
...FRANK Johnson, who died this morning aged only 63, was generally...origins - his father was a pastrychef in Stoke Newington Frank rose to be editor of the Spectator from 1995 to 1999. He...galere of friends. Leaving school at 15 with only one O-level, Frank started work as a tea-boy on Lord Beaverbrook's ...
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