A religious and social symbol of the Dardic speaking people of the trans-Himalayas The mountain goat: The Rock Carvings of Taru Thang.

A steel bridge, completed in 1903, spanned the East River. It became known as the JewsБЂ™ Bridge; the New York Herald called it БЂњthe JewsБЂ™ Highway.БЂ«It linked the newly arrived immigrant Jews on the once-elegant streets of Williamsburg to the Jews who lived on Delancey Street in the heart of the teeming Lower East Side of Manhattan, the БЂњmiserably darkened HebrewsБЂ«with whom БЂњthe thoroughly acclimated American JewБЂ¦ has no religious, social or intellectual ties,БЂ«in the words of the Hebrew Standard in 1894. Riding or walking across the bridge on a warm, clear day, one could see the Manhattan skyline, gaze into the heart of capitalism. Did Solomon Slepak, recently come to Marxism and the Social Democratic Party, marvel at the power of this purported enemy of the proletariat? Did he see class struggle in the swarm and crush of people on the streets, the Jews pushing their carts, the filthy sidewalks, the dark tenements; or in his first job in a factory that made menБЂ™s and womenБЂ™s belts, wallets, and purses, where he labored at a hot press stamping out leather patterns? In capitalist fashion, the leather company soon went broke, there being scant demand for its goods ...»