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...road back. There were wonderful songs after 1975 even on his most equivocal albums (like Every Grain of Sand on Shot of Love), but Dylan appeared to have given himself over to political conservatism and the rigors of religious conversion. First he adopted fundamentalist Christianity, then an Orthodox Judaism that made him sound on some recent records like a half-delirious cabala student looking for a guest shot on Soul Train...
Christians are taught to turn the other cheek, to forgive. The eye-for-an-eye formula of the Old Testament does not rule out mercy and forgiveness, which are highly valued in Jewish teaching as well. But in Judaism, there are two conditions for repentance: one must go in genuine contrition to the person sinned against, and one must do one's best to compensate for the wrong done. But how can a Nazi, say, compensate a Jew for exterminating his entire family? In that sense, some crimes simply cannot be forgiven...
...sister. Aunt Sarah, all make their way to her impressionable yet independent mind. All the passions that have moved people throughout the centuries meet and mix in the nighttime musings of an eight-year old girl and vie with each other for her allegience. Ultimately, and surprisingly, it is Judaism that wins...
...achieve complete salvation for humanity and that a Korean messiah will appear in this century. Hundreds of parents have charged that their brainwashed children often ended up on the streets selling flowers for Moon while he lived in luxury at a 25-room estate. Mose Durst, a convert from Judaism who is president of the Unification Church of America, candidly admits that "the image of us is that we have four-year-olds locked in iceboxes in the basement...
...years Judaism's Conservative branch struggled over whether women should become rabbis. Reform Jews, more liberal, have ordained women since 1972, and 71 are now rabbis. But the Conservatives warily delayed, until in 1983 the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary voted to train and ordain women. Last week, with the first female seminarian about to graduate, the cycle was completed when the Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of Conservative rabbis in the U.S. and Canada, announced it would admit to membership anyone ordained by the seminary, male or female...