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...report "Survey Confirms Alcohol Stereotypes" (News, Feb. 12) discusses the attitudes of various religious communities towards alcohol use and implies that the Jewish community supports drinking through quotes such as, "In fact, on Purim, you're supposed to get drunk." (Purim is the springtime holiday that commemorates deliverance from national obliteration, and is celebrated with merriment and satire...
...editors of the Talmud followed Rava's one-liner with this story in order to warn against the dangers of excessive alcohol use and to express strong ambivalence or even opposition to Rava's line itself. Thus, to portray Judaism as unequivocally alcohol-friendly is a distortion of the Jewish tradition...
...much to the Palestinians, which sparked the recent violence. For those Israelis who did turn out to vote, however, it appears that they no longer believe that they can achieve peace by making the concessions Barak planned to make, since that would sacrifice the essential character of the Jewish state. That is, if they were to allow Palestinians the right of return, Arab numbers would soon swell to match those of the Jews within Israel. Similarly, giving up Jerusalem would involve relinquishing control of many Jewish holy sites. By electing the radical Sharon as prime minister, they demonstrated their loss...
Dharma, the largest Hindu religious organization, as well as Hillel, the center of Jewish activity on campus, serve a wide range of students, some of whom choose to drink and some...
...child who reimagines the lives of her parents clearly is also bound to paint her own self-portrait using the reflections in their eyes. And so it happens for Devorah Arnow as she memorializes her mother Chenia, a Russian Jewish emigre who settled in Brooklyn in the middle of the 20th century, raised a family, grew old, but never really got off the boat from Europe. Chenia, as Devorah reconstructs her in Carole Glickfeld's Swimming Toward the Ocean (Knopf; 388 pages; $24), lingers on a sort of moral gangplank with a view of the dazzling rides at Coney Island...