1.   No one knows of a bearded rabbi who dresses in black, tells stories and lives in El Cerrito.

2.   On the living room wall is a portrait of a bearded rabbi who pioneered the national religious philosophy that provides much of the theoretical backing of the settler movement.

3.   The bearded Orthodox rabbi carefully brushed away the snow covering a heap of broken-down tombstones in what was once a sprawling Jewish cemetery.

4.   Thirteen-year-old Timon Shadulini stood beside the Western Wall and waited his turn to dance with the old bearded rabbis at a mass bar mitzvah ceremony.