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...David Gottesman lives in Beachwood, Ohio, a town with a Jewish majority. This demographic fact is largely the result of a 1952 court ruling that ordered Beachwood's leaders to allow the building of a Reform temple. So naturally Gottesman assumed there would be little objection to a plan in 1996 to open two more synagogues, one for his own brand of Orthodox Judaism and another for a Hasidic group. He was mistaken. A majority of Beachwood's Jews, mostly Reform and Conservative, have fought his cause at town meetings, at the polls and in court with an obstinacy outstripping...
...typically dispiriting take on American Jewish dysfunction from Samuel G. Freedman's new book Jew vs. Jew (Simon & Schuster; 384 pages; $26). But to the initiated, its message is more specific: the angst of belonging to the group so often stuck in the middle of such rifts. Gottesman is a Modern Orthodox Jew. Just like Joe Lieberman...
...surfing? Emphatically not. Researchers suspect that another four or five dopamine-related genes also contribute. Moreover, behavior ultimately depends as much on upbringing and opportunity as it does on innate temperament. Someone with the thrill-seeking gene might turn out to be a serial murderer, observes behavioral geneticist Irving Gottesman of the University of Virginia. "Under a different scenario and in a different environment," he says, "that person could become a hero in Bosnia...
According to Goldman Sachs Co. Senior PersonnelAssociate Debbie H. Gottesman, Harvard is one ofthe company's most recruited colleges, second onlyto the University of Pennsylvania...
Goldman Sachs hired 15 Harvard graduates lastyear, Gottesman says...