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  • And he certainly does not have any empathy or rachmones.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Blogging Pseudonym Bites the Dust: 2009

  • As a doctrine of universal acceptance, Hawaiian "aloha" - resonates with Hebraic "rachmones" -- universal empathy, and with the Zulu "ubuntu" -- universal harmony so often cited by Bishop Tutu.

    Barack Obama and the Summer of Aloha 2008

  • Maybe he'll have a little rachmones for the have-less and have-nots, though I doubt it.

    Erica Jong: Why Am I So Afraid 2008

  • By “making it,” Podhoretz became for his detractors the Sammy Glick of the intellectual set, driven by raw ambition, sucking up to those in power, and in effect shouting “to hell with rachmones; the poor should get off their duffs already!”

    Adbusters makes a list of Jews 2004

  • All a medley of prayers, banknotes, and _rachmones_, [87] with a few strains of enlightenment and

    Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878

  • The kosher food producers and purveyors should have rachmones on already strapped Jewish consumers and "do the right thing" by them.

    unknown title 2009

  • ..oy vey...such chutzpah, this ferschtinkiner, to schlock together this shanda mit da rubber chickens no less...what, he's got no rachmones for the faith ?

    Circling the Pedicabs: Cycling and the New Frontier BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Rich · December 4th, 2006 at 10:04 am i’ll have rachmones on dennis prager when he has rachmones on everyone who doesn’t think like him

    ADL Bitchslaps Prager | Jewschool 2006

  • A commentor wrote: "the main thing i want to say is this: i don't appreciate people hoping for a comrade obama victory, G-d forbid. some say this will be great for aliyah, which i understand; but as a person who tries to have rachmones, i know that mccain / palin would be best for usa, israel and the world.

    Israelated - English Israel blogs 2008

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