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...from Chabad, with long black coats and black hats characteristic of their sect, handed our flourescent flyers with invitations to a Friday night dinner and information about a course on Judaism called "Judaism...
Both within Judaism and in Harvard's worldview, there is a healthy respect for the dead. We are constantly educated with and measured against the scholarship, philosophies and lifestyles of those who came before us. The slate headstones of Harvard presidents and professors, slanting with age, cast long shadows, as do the names on the room histories distributed to every first-year: Emerson, Roosevelt, Kennedy. Sometimes it feels like they are watching over us. Sometimes we have to watch over them...
...book seem remarkably similar and indistinguishable. After hearing about the Brittons, Sorbs, Wends and Karaim, it becomes difficult to remember which, exactly, was the hea-then tribes near the Czech border of Germany and which were the radical splinter-group that broke off from Judaism in the eighth century...
...York Times last month, affirmed the right of the majority to do just that. Writing about Dartmouth, "a Christian college founded for the Christianization of its students," in the words of the institution's President Hopkins in 1945, Buckley argues: "Why can't Judaism and Christianity go hand in hand at Dartmouth, with the conventional deference to the majority?" Universities, Buckley maintains, founded with a Christian mission should be able to continue the ideal of Christianizing their students. Those not "susceptible to Christian mores"--at Harvard, the more than 25 percent of the student body that is not Christian--should...
...reasonable, as little as $10, but costs escalate with the purchase of the center's books and tapes. For example, its 24-volume edition of the Zohar, in Aramaic and Hebrew, sells for $345, three times the price of similar compilations. Rabbi Michael Skobac, a consultant for Jews for Judaism, has received complaints of aggressive and unethical door-to-door solicitation by center teachers. In addition, some members report feeling squeezed for cash. "At the center, they say you can only make a difference when you give until it hurts," says the former devotee. Berg firmly denies any coercion...