Word: rabbi
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...sign theStudent-Faculty Judiciary from after their casehad gone before the Board, instead of before aswritten in the rules. They were discouraged fromappearing before the board, and they were informedtheir parents would receive an explanatory letterin the mail; the letter was never sent. InsteadDave told his father, a rabbi, himself. "They'renot treating you with the menschlichkeityou deserve," his father said...
Bennett progresses through school, falling in love with algebra and studying math on his own at home. He talks with his rabbi. In high school he has an affair with a drama teacher. Then he goes to college, learns a lot of physics, befriends another physics student who turns into a drug addict, goes to graduate school, learns more physics, finishes his doctorate and marries an artist. The marriage deteriorates, and the book ends...
...young, especially, who are discovering their Jewishness. ``In the very place where the Nazis created Auschwitz, we have young Jews trying to reclaim their heritage,'' said Rabbi Michael Schudrich of the American Lauder foundation as he opened the latest youth center last week in Cracow, Poland. ``Many did not even know five years ago that they were Jewish.'' In Budapest the 118-year-old Rabbinical Seminary, the only one in Eastern Europe, is training a new generation of religious leaders for Hungary. One young believer is student Rafael Rohrig, 27, who says he came from an orthodox family--orthodox communist...
...much of Eastern Europe it is Jews themselves who need to investigate their heritage. In Moscow, Maureen Greenwood, a project coordinator for an American Jewish human-rights organization, described a U.S. rabbi's shock upon finding a Russian Orthodox icon in a Jewish family's living room. ``The reason,'' says Greenwood, ``is that all religion was so repressed. Jews and Christians were all in the same boat. People simply want to satisfy their religious longings...
...paintings are gone forever. ``You cannot revive Jewish culture here,'' says Russia's Gerber. ``You cannot revive something that is finished.'' Others are troubled that the youthful embrace of Judaism is only rarely a question of faith. ``A lot of them want to be Jewish without the religion,'' complains Rabbi Jozsef Schweitzer, head of Budapest's Rabbinical Seminary. ``We as rabbis want the end station of this renaissance to be synagogue Jews, not club Jews...