Word: rabbi
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...RABBI, I FIND RELIGIOUSLY IRRELEvant the question of whether events described in the Bible represent historical fact [COVER STORIES, Dec. 18]. If it could be proved that every event portrayed in the Bible is absolutely and unequivocally historically false, my faith would remain unaltered because the Bible represents eternal spiritual and moral truth. The Jewish Bible represents a spiritual communication between the Jewish people and God and is not subject to historical analysis. I want to learn about historical facts, which may or may not corroborate the stories in the Bible. But that endeavor is of no consequence...
...last, a reason for Modern Maturity readers to watch mtv. In the video for Don Henley's newest song, The Garden of Allah, Kirk Douglas plays Satan. The 79-year-old actor, who agreed to take the role after consulting his rabbi, has no lines but lip-synchs quite convincingly--no mean feat for a man who's almost deaf...
...also the actual losses of hundreds of lives as a result. If Rabin's passing is a true tragedy for the entire Jewish people, as indeed it is, so is the loss of every person killed as a result of Arab violence since the start of the negotiations. RABBI SHMUEL M. BUTMAN New York City...
...world Philip Roth and his fictional double would be dismissed as a Jewish Amos and Andy, a contributor to "a culture of self-abasement and vulgar excess." Young Halevi's heroes were fighting Jews: the Zionist firebrands of the 1930s; the invincible Israeli army; and U.S. extremists like Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded the Jewish Defense League...
Yigal Amir's ideas, if not his plans, were shared widely enough on the far right to amply justify a public backlash. Says Rabbi Sholomo Aviner, head of a religious school in Jerusalem: "The students would ask the question--like they were asking what food should be eaten on the Sabbath--'Is it O.K. under Torah law to kill the Prime Minister?' Everyone was talking violence. There were hundreds like Amir...