Word: convert
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Certainly the most famous and perhaps the most beautiful baby born last week was a Jewish girl named Elisheba Rachel Taylor. For according to Jewish legal theory, every convert is "a newborn child." And last week 27-year-old Film Star Elizabeth Taylor became a Jew and acquired a ceremonial Jewish name: Elisheba, the Hebrew version of Elizabeth, and her own favorite Biblical heroine, Rachel, the "beautiful and well-favored" wife of Jacob (Genesis...
Last week's ceremony took place in the chapel of Temple Israel in the presence of Convert Taylor's parents. Facing the open Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Scrolls, she answered the ritual questions put to her by Rabbi Nussbaum. Among them: "Do you promise to cast in your lot with the people of Israel amid all circumstances and conditions?" "Do you agree to rear your future children according to the Jewish faith...
...Norman Vincent Peale or California burgundy. But nowadays the TV box is no longer square. An intellectual can laughingly confess to TV addiction, and the lower-brow the program the better. Even so eminent a figure as Columbia University's Professor Mark Van Doren has been a convert ever since his son Charles triumphed on Twenty...
...excesses of her more diligent henchmen sickened even Elizabeth, the Queen who presided over the liquidation of Roman Catholicism in England. After about 180 executions, including the Jesuit Robert Southwell, Elizabeth said that if her council wanted to convert more Catholics to the Established Church, they should do so by the example of their lives. "For I," she cried, "will persecute no more than I have done...
However, the plan faces many obstacles. If the College expands its student body, or if the Houses decide to de-convert a large number of suites, there would be no room for graduate students. According to Owen, however, "From all available indications, we will make little deconversion, because undergraduates cannot afford, or do not want...