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...Each rabbi advised students to refrain from pre-marital sex but acknowledged that sexual and religious views have changed...
...Reform Rabbi Roland Gittelson said that although Judaic ways of viewing sex must remain open to an "expanding world of knowledge," he voiced caution about having sex too often or too early before marriage...
...Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein also said that sex should be the last step in a relationship. Although Jewish thought views physical love positively, sexual decisions must have a moral basis, said Lookstein, who is principal of the Ramaz School in New York City...
Last week both the Democrats and the Israeli lobby fell silent, tacitly acknowledging they were outgunned. The lobbyists were almost nowhere in sight, with some confessing to friends like Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman David Obey, "The President has all the cards." Said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles: "The campaign is gone. No one is going to take on the President of the United States...
...easy for Isaac Bashevis Singer to believe in miracles. He was proof that they existed. In 1935 the rabbi's son journeyed from Warsaw to New York City to visit his brother, novelist Israel Joshua Singer, and thereby escaped the Holocaust. He described vanished worlds in a dying language to a dwindling audience and was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was unknown at 40, but last week, when I.B. Singer died of a stroke at the age of 87, he was the most applauded Polish-born writer since Joseph Conrad...