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This isn't about the infamous Skull & Bones, but a jewish version called "Eliezer".
http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...s-nation-yahoo excerpts: Meet Eliezer, the secret Yale society that's hiding in plain sight. The "secret" lies in the private networking and intimate bonding among a cohesive, self selecting, truly diverse membership. A list of who belongs to Eliezer exists but the contents are strictly off-the-record. Everything is word of mouth and invite-only, not to exclude but to include the most interesting Yalies from over the walls of Yale's various courtyards: college, graduate schools, and faculty. "Eliezer is much more than a club at Yale," says Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who is writing the foreword to a book about the society. "It is a global network of activists who care deeply about the Jewish people and about the world." |
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http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/vi...d=208&letter=E
ELIEZER —In Rabbinical Literature: Eliezer was presented to Abraham by Nimrod. Once Eliezer saved Abraham's life by disclosing to him the devices for his destruction prepared by Nimrod (Pirḳe R. El. xvi.). At Sodom Eliezer saw a native maltreating a stranger: taking the part of the wronged man, he was himself severely wounded. He brought suit against his aggressor, but the judge condemned Eliezer to pay to the native of Sodom a certain amount of money for having been bled. Thereupon Eliezer inflicted a severe wound upon the judge, saying: "Pay to the man who bled me the amount you owe me for having bled you." The men of Sodom used to place a guest on a bed, and if his length exceeded that of the bed they cut off the excess, but if the man was shorter than the bed he was stretched (comp. the Greek legend of Procrustes). Asked to lie in the bed, Eliezer replied that at the death of his mother he had vowed never to sleep in a bed. Another custom in Sodom was that he who invited a stranger to a wedding should forfeit his coat. Once Eliezer, being very hungry, entered a house where a wedding was being celebrated, but could get nothing to eat. He then sat down next one of the wedding guests; on being asked by him who had invited him, he replied: "By you." The latter, fearing to lose his coat, left the house precipitately. Eliezer then sat near another, on whom he played the same trick, with the same result, until at last he had succeeded in driving all the guests out of the house. He then secured the meal for himself (Sanh. 109b). |
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This isn't about the infamous Skull & Bones, but a jewish version called "Eliezer". dys |
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