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...talking about social calls, the First Couple has racked up an impressive list of friends: Top donors and Lincoln Bedroom visitors include Hollywood heavyweight Steven Spielberg, SlimFast foods magnate S. Daniel Abraham and Rockland County Democratic chair Paul Adler, who, according to the New York Times, gave early and often to Mrs. Clinton's Senate campaign...
...When it reaches a certain crescendo, you know it," observes Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, who fired off a letter to Lieberman calling his remarks "inappropriate" and "unsettling." But the vice-presidential nominee was just getting started. He praised the Democrats' prescription-drug plan as a way to keep the Fifth Commandment to honor thy father and mother, likened Al Gore to Joseph for shepherding the surplus to prepare for lean years ahead, and cast Clinton as Moses for parting the Red Sea with his economic program. The latest battle over the appropriate...
Lieberman arrived at Yale in 1960, where he eventually became chief editor of the Yale Daily News. Three years later, while working as a summer intern in the Washington office of Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, he met his first wife Betty. They had two children--Matt and Rebecca--but by 1981 their 16-year marriage was over. In his book Lieberman writes that while there was "no single reason" for the failure of the marriage, "some of it was related to the fact that I had become much more religiously observant...And there is no doubt that some...
...DIED. ABRAHAM PAIS, 82, physicist and science historian; in Copenhagen. After surviving Nazi persecution in Holland, Pais conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Later in life he won broad acclaim for his biography of Albert Einstein and essays on other scientists...
...spent Saturday reading philosophy instead of attending synagogue, and found that my tradition was unwilling to let me wallow in my meaninglessness. Abraham Joshua Heschel, the greatest Jewish philosopher of our time, was only one of the many voices insisting that we start with what we can. "The teaching of Judaism is the theology of the common deed," he wrote. Doing things can make a difference. Powerful changes are in fact only possible by immersing ourselves in the world and trying to take part. "Perhaps the essential teaching of Judaism is that in doing the finite we may perceive...