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...basic difference between preterists and the futurists who believe in the theories of the Left Behind book series [SOCIETY, July 1] is that the futurists deny or ignore the clear time statements of the Bible. The last days were simply the last days of the old Jewish covenant, which ended forever in A.D. 70. Preterists take God's word to mean what it says, leaving it in its 1st century context. More information is available at www.lighthouseworldministries.com JOHN ANDERSON, PRESIDENT Lighthouse World Ministries Sparta...
...Thank God I have theater for my therapy. If I don't have theater, I would take a gun and shoot many people." NORMAN ISSA, Arab-Israeli actor with the Arab-Hebrew Theater in Jaffa, an actors' group committed to partnership between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel, on his divided feelings...
Katherine McGaffigan—the key witness whose testimony in a Boston federal court last month led to the conviction last Friday of a neo-Nazi and his white supremacist girlfriend for conspiracy to bomb a Jewish or black landmark—is not actually a Harvard undergraduate despite her claims to the contrary, the University confirmed last night...
...CHAIM POTOK, 73, scholar, ordained rabbi and best selling novelist whose books described conflicts between fathers and sons and tradition and change; in Merion, Pennsylvania. In such novels as The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, Potok (born Herman Harold Potok) gave an insider's view of Orthodox Jewish life in the U.S. and described his own struggle between secularism and orthodoxy. But his books found a universal readership and Potok referred to himself as 'an American writer writing about a small and particular American world.' DIED. MILDRED 'MILLIE' DEEGAN, 82, star of women's professional baseball who played...
...DIED. DAVID ASSEO, 88, Chief Rabbi of Turkey and advocate of interfaith tolerance; in Istanbul. Asseo was the leader of Turkey's small Jewish community for 41 years, and nursed it through the 1986 terrorist attack on Istanbul's Neve Shalom Synagogue in which 22 people were killed...