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  • He reasons if he can shrei about a "second Holocaust" and blare headlines about the threat that Iran poses to the world, no one will notice that Israel is doing nothing to resolve any of the conflicts with its immediate neighbors.

    Israel Palestine Blogs 2009

  • Virtue — she, wonder-working goddess! charms That rock to bloom; and tames the painted shrei i NIGHT THE THIRD.

    The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author 1812

  • the real Chassidim ppl striving to make their will into Hashem’s will, not gangstas-in-bekitsches with guns were saying a lot like HaYom, shrei-ing “what is this violence going to accomplish!

    Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Cancelled | Jewschool 2006

  • Selick Washinsky had shrei’d—shrei being a Jewish scream, something only Jews can do.

    Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

  • And then, because there’s nowhere else a shrei can go, and because he had decided at last where and where only the word was to be found, he had leapt at Asher’s throat.

    Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

  • From what I’m hearing, the word on the street, according to my friends who live in Meah She’arim (charedi friends who live right off Rechov Meah Shearim) was that most of the real Chassidim (ppl striving to make their will into Hashem’s will, not gangstas-in-bekitsches with guns) were saying a lot like HaYom, shrei-ing “what is this violence going to accomplish!”

    Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Cancelled | Jewschool 2006

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