Word: rabbi
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...Levin who in the early 1970s spawned the idea of renting space on a satellite to relay TV signals. A Philadelphia native who once planned to be a rabbi but switched from religion to philosophy at Haverford College, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and practiced briefly before joining Time Inc. in 1972. His notion of bouncing movies off satellites and into living rooms from Boston to Berkeley helped transform Home Box Office from a struggling service into the biggest pay channel in the U.S.; combined with its sister Cinemax service, it now has nearly 24 million...
Benevolence and Betrayal has heroes as well as moral lepers. Rabbi Riccardo Pacifici risked his life by staying in Genoa after its occupation by German troops to minister to the city's large Jewish refugee population; he was one of some 7,000 Italian Jews to die in concentration camps. Carlo Schonheit, a cantor from Ferrara, and his son Franco were among the handful who survived Buchenwald, the horrors of which Alexander Stille describes with chilling understatement. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, the frail Archbishop of Genoa, unhesitatingly agreed to carry on the work of a Jewish relief organization after...
...Romance, and Rejection: Life on Campus--by Rabbi Sally Finestone, acting director, H-R Hillel, 74 Mt. Auburn...
Harry Kemelman--will read from The Day the Rabbi Resigned. Boston UniversityBookstore Mall, Charlesbank Reading Room, KenmoreSquare, Boston. Thursday, Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m. Free.236-7425...
Only 10 students not on the "kosher" eating list will be admitted at each meal. The organization and the University have always had a 10-person limit for diners not on the eating list, but Hillel has recently begun enforcing the rule, said Rabbi Sally R. Finestone yesterday...