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Orthodox Rabbi Harvey Falk of Brooklyn believes that much interreligious tension need never have existed at all. His current book, Jesus the Pharisee: A New Look at the Jewishness of Jesus, just issued by a Roman Catholic publisher (Paulist Press; 175 pages; $8.95), contends that Jews and Christians alike fail to grasp Jesus' ties to the competing Jewish factions of his time. Christians, says Falk, have misunderstood some of the teachings of Jesus, while Jews have been needlessly hostile toward "Yeshua ha Notzri" (Jesus of Nazareth). Falk's book offers a provocative and controversial theory on Christian origins...
...interesting life. The fact is that at the time of Roosevelt's marriage, when Ward's book ends, F.D.R. had not yet become F.D.R. It was only his later struggle with polio that added the necessary steel to his character. Ward is already at work on sequel. It cannot fail to reveal a stranger, stronger character, but it will build on this odd foundation. --By Otto Friedrich
...never was deeply involved in the budget process to begin with." In what could become an explosive new reversal, however, Chief of Staff Regan hinted last week that the White House might change course and back the Senate's call for Social Security cuts after all, should the House fail to come up with some other realistic savings in domestic spending. And even from his sickbed, the President continued to insist that he is unalterably opposed to one solution that could break the impasse: a tax increase...
Every mean-spirited or mistaken action by a male is chalked up as yet another manifestation of patriarchy in action: Stalin's murder of Polish army officers, the deterioration of language, textbooks that fail to discuss the debate over clitoral vs. vaginal orgasms...
Each year, 25 poets and 25 fiction writers are admitted to the two-year masters program. They attend workshops and seminars and everything is graded on a pass-fail basis, said acting co-director Marilynne Robinison, who won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction last week...