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Cultural differences also prompt some students to live off campus. Jessica A. Zern '88, an Orthodox Jew of the Lubavich sect, lives with a rabbi's family in Brighton because she says it is difficult to be a religious Jew living in the Houses. Samer Nadir '89, a native of Lebanon who lives with his parents in Arlington, adds that Americans and Lebanese think differently about living off campus during college...
American Jewish leaders, normally reluctant to criticize Israeli government policy in times of crisis, last week issued a barrage of condemnations. Reform Rabbi Alexander Schindler, President of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, sent a scathing letter to Israeli President Chaim Herzog, calling the beatings an "offense to the Jewish spirit" that "violates every principle of human decency and betrays the Zionist dream." Declared Bert Gold, executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee: "Using brute force evokes other times and places when it was used against us." Said Balfour Brickner, senior rabbi of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue...
...Babylonian text runs to 2.5 million words. The Jerusalem (or Palestinian) Talmud, far less known, is half as long, but many sections are so condensed as to be unintelligible. Its message was alive only for scholars and a handful of others. Now that is changing because a brilliant Orthodox rabbi named Adin Steinsaltz believes Judaism is in peril if "an essential part of our people are cut off from the Talmud...
...will stand like Rashi and Maimonides," says Israeli Historian Zeev Katz, daring to compare the contemporary rabbi with the two great Jewish sages of medieval times. The assertion that Steinsaltz is a once-in-a-millennium scholar is particularly remarkable coming from Katz, a leader of Israel's association of secular humanists. But the diminutive, soft-spoken Steinsaltz inspires superlatives from all Jewish factions. In recognition of his achievements, he has just been named winner of the 1988 Israel Prize, his nation's highest honor. The rabbi greeted the news with characteristic mirth: "Gee, one gets that a year before...
...Ambassador to the U.N., labeled the Security Council a "kangaroo court" and declared, "We were frankly very disappointed ! that the U.S. joined in this exercise." Though several U.S. Jewish leaders have decried the Israeli use of live ammunition, they were nearly unanimous last week in rejecting the U.N. vote. Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, said the U.S. action "will be seen by the Palestinians as a license for further violence...