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...Caroline Costello, who had been deeply in love with him since their undergraduate years at Yale, and continued to love him in spite of his illness. They were ideal tenants. They were quiet neighbors. They were engaged to be married. She was talking to a rabbi about converting to Judaism, her lover's faith. And she had become pregnant. Then, last Wednesday, Costello was stabbed more than 10 times with a chef's knife...
...There is a notion in Judaism of tikkun olam," Laudor told the Times in 1995, "to heal the world." He felt it was his calling to redeem pariahs, to prove that those afflicted with mental illness could still serve. In the complicated psychochemistry of madness, his very determination may have led to his undoing...
...York Times book review that he got off at Times Square to confront the critic face to face. Kazin's thoughtful critiques continued in On Native Grounds, his seminal 1942 appraisal of American writers, and in countless other essays, reviews and memoirs dwelling in depth on New York, Judaism and above all literature, the three topics dearest to Kazin's heart...
...interest is not in excluding anyone, but in including as many different perspectives as we can. We disagree with Danilewitz's assumption that this effort makes us bad Jews. In fact, we believe Judaism is commensurate with the values of inclusion, expression and understanding which we hold dear. Editorial Chairs
...unresolved question of national identity: Is Israel a Jewish state, with the emphasis on Jewish, or is it a state for the Jews, a regular, modern, democratic place where Jews are in the majority? Israel's Zionist founders were almost exclusively secular--in many respects, antireligious--and they saw Judaism principally as a nationality. But in deference to tradition, and as a way of securing the support of the Orthodox minority, they made certain concessions to religion: restricting commerce on the Jewish Sabbath, for instance, and leaving such matters as marriage and burial in the exclusive hands of rabbinical authorities...