Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prison Rabbi Ari Shapiro and the six students recreated the Passover event for about 10 inmates. The model Seder was held a day before the actual celebration because the students were leaving for home to spend the holiday with family and friends...
Hyman said that the idea was inspired by Joshua D. Fine '96, who has attended Seder in a maximum-security woman's prison in New York each year in his capacity as the son of the facility's rabbi...
...drunk. A thousand track switches have to click in sequence for the child who starts out toward greatness to wind up there. If a single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of both biology and biblical law at Yeshiva University in New York City: "I can make myself an Albert Einstein, and he may turn out to be a drug addict...
...Israel Singer it started with a book. In 1994 he chanced to read a Paul Erdman novel, The Swiss Account, that alluded to Allen Dulles' wartime role as America's top spy in neutral Switzerland. The hints of unsavory Swiss behavior enticed the ordained rabbi and former political science professor from New York City into reading a biography of Dulles, which made reference to a U.S. intelligence operation code-named Project Safehaven. Its mission: to track down Nazi gold and loot being smuggled out of the Third Reich...
Other Board members include: Rabbi Sally Finestone of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; Dr. Cyrus Mehta; Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III of Trinity Church; Father George S. Salzmann, and Rev. Victor H. Kasanjian Jr., dean of religious life at Wellesley College...