Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...create a major fire hazard to all residents of a building. So, why does the College permit students to string electrical wires around windows and over dead tinder--leaving them there 24 hours a day for a whole month--at the same time that it does not permit Jewish students to responsibly light and watch over menorahs for one hour on each of the eight nights of Hannukah? Is the College so sure that menorahs are a worse fire hazard...
Although the dinner took place at Hiller, that organization's chair, Michael A. Kay '01, said the event did not "represent the views of Hillel or of the Harvard Jewish community as a whole...
...Whip out those menorahs and dreidels because Hannukah, the Jewish festival of lights, starts...
...setting is again the Baltimore, Md., of Levinson's youth, source of Diner, Tin Men and Avalon. This time his alter ego is a smart, sweet-souled teenager named Ben (Ben Foster) who, having lived all his life in a Jewish enclave, is astonished to discover that most of the world is not, after all, Jewish. That's particularly true of Sylvia (the uncannily cool, wise and beautiful Rebekah Johnson), who is one of the token blacks in his newly integrated school. Their relationship is handled with great delicacy; this is a friendship that yearns to be, deserves...
Liberty Heights is the fourth in Barry Levinson's "trilogy" about his hometown of Baltimore, Md. After Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987) and Avalon (1990), he felt he had finished with tales about growing up in the city's Jewish neighborhood in the 1950s. But then an ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY review of his 1998 movie, Sphere, referred to Dustin Hoffman as a "noodgey and menschlike" Jewish psychologist. The racial stereotyping annoyed Levinson ("Nobody would say Mel Gibson was playing a Catholic industrialist in Ransom"), but it also got him thinking about his youth again. Rather than fume, he sat down...