Word: judaic
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...result, intermarriage has often been viewed as a threat to the survival of the Jewish populace. It is true enough that few intermarried families carry on Jewish traditions as rigorously as did the parents of the Jewish partner. Thus, the danger of losing the Judaic heritage entirely seems imminent to some otherwise rational rabbis and believers...
Today, one in four students at the College is Jewish. And several top University administrators are of Jewish descent--including Provost Jerry R. Green, who last week gave a talk on how lessons from the Judaic tradition of moral law could benefit the Harvard administration...
...fate of Italian Jewry during World War II has a special poignancy. This oldest of Judaic communities in the Western world had survived nearly two millenniums of intermittent repression and persecution. Italy was among the last countries of Europe to eliminate the ghetto, when Rome was liberated and the Papal States were abolished in 1870. Yet during the next 60 or so years, life for Italian Jews was sweet indeed. Anti-Semitism was of little moment in a country where they were such a tiny minority -- 47,000 in a population of 45 million, as of 1910 -- that most Italians...
Reform Rabbi Roland Gittelson said that although Judaic ways of viewing sex must remain open to an "expanding world of knowledge," he voiced caution about having sex too often or too early before marriage...
Just as his background blends a Southern gentility with Judaic intellectual rigor, Romano presents an amiability that offsets his willingness to make sharp moral judgments. He retains the capacity for a mature rebuttal of selfinterest among the privileged while he himself is a product of middle-class comfort. And although his collegiate career has led him to oversee the work of 1000 volunteers in 38 committees, Romano remains most comfortable plotting and executing one-on-one community work with the children of Boston's housing projects and tenements...