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...other extreme, conservative legalists prohibit acts of male (though not female) homosexual intercourse. Yet even they do not make derogatory reference to gay and lesbian people, something AALARM's postering did. This distinction between act and actor, under which persons are respected even when their deeds are not, has been part of Jewish law for as long as rabbis have written. (For one early Talmudic example, see the Mishna, Berakhot...
NEARLY 1200 years ago, a Jewish sect known as the Karaites tried to reject the tradition of rabbinic interpretation in favor of literal readings of original text. Finding this approach fundamentally un-Jewish, the Jewish community banished Karaism. Exegesis, discussion and reinterpretation are central to Jewish tradition. AALARM's co-presidents would have the Jewish community abandon that tradition and replace it with a literal devotion to translated text, something notably representative of certain Protestant sects...
...Adam Webb is not a party to that conversation. Not AALARM, not PBH, not AAA, not even (gasp!) The Crimson staff can announce the values of the Jewish community. Perhaps no student organization is truly qualified to make such announcements. But if there is one, it is not AALARM. It is Hillel. To argue the opposite is to deny a community of people the right to decide for themselves who and what they will...
This year is my third as a member of the Coordinating Council. I have no idea to whom AALARM might refer. I would be most interested to hear them identify these subversives on the far left. (Do they have a list?) I am waiting for a phone call...
...AALARM stands for "Religion," but it does not mean religion in general. Each of us can think of many religions, of this century and others, whose resurgence on this campus AALARM would not support...