Word: congregationers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twersky volunteered as a spiritual leader at the Congregation Beth David, the temple where he worshipped, and was a frequent visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where he also served on the Board of Governors.
Students read from the holy books of several religious traditions, chanting in foreign languages for three of them. Gomes and the two presidents led the congregation in the singing of hymns, with Rudenstine singing the final hymn without a lyrics sheet.
In a later sermon Gomes names fear as the culprit: "Everybody is fearful, terrified of some public or private demon...It is fear not only holds us together, but keeps us from being whole." On the threshold of a new millennium, Gomes worries that this sense of fear may be...
He became an upstanding member of the congregation, delighting many of the adults with his choirboy gentility. "Yes, sir" was the way he addressed the men, and he was wont to say "Ma'am" when he held out a chair for a lady. He'd been raised right, most folks...
But even as he pleaded not guilty last week, his supporters may be coming to feel they have embraced a Judas. Already the changes are striking. Lyons has long been a popular preacher, so powerfully connected that some associates called him the black Pope. On a recent Sunday, Lyons forbade...