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Andrew S. Obus '03, on the other hand, is a Reform Jew. He says attending the Sabbath services often loses out to other commitments...
Russell Rivera '00, who calls himself a more secular Jew, says in his opinion, the group does not devote enough attention to the cultural aspects of the religion...
...Tamar Katz '01, an Orthodox Jew, says she believes in Hillel's goal of pluralism, which she says means "compromise...
...with each other is made resplendently luminous in Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 164 pages; $30), a long narrative poem with a number of stories on its mind. One is what Walcott modestly calls his "inexact and blurred biography" of the painter Pissarro, a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors were driven out of Portugal, who chose to practice his art in Europe rather than the raw island paradise of his birth. A parallel account involves Walcott: his boyhood fascination with the reproductions of European masterpieces he found in books, his vision, during a later visit to a Manhattan...
...neatest illustration of the week's complexity, however, is the Pope's Mass at Nazareth's Basilica of the Annunciation. It is scheduled for March 25, the feast day marking the angelic announcement to a young Nazarene Jew that she would give birth to the Son of God. Last year the Israeli government appalled the Vatican by issuing a permit for a mosque to be built near the basilica. There was dark talk that the trip would be scuttled. It wasn't but another problem arose. The 25th is a Saturday, and 2,000 Jewish religious figures protested that attending...