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...House residents William L. Aronson ’04 and J. Benjamin St. Clair ’04 for the Pudding’s annual drag burlesque extravaganza in the spring, features God as a disgruntled proprietor called Land Lord who threatens to smite his tenants—including Rabbi Noah Fense and his counterpart Nun Taken—unless they cough up overdue rent money...
...whole villages out of folded paper for his children. "He was such a gentle, modest man," says Judit. "It was impossible not to love my father." The sound of Yiddish and the aromas of the seder suffuse other stories told to Centropa researchers. The craggy face of an old rabbi named Abraham Rezmovitz glares out from under a wide-brimmed hat in an account of the family Rezmovitz, who lived in a part of what was then Hungary and is now Romania. "Jewish fanatacism shone in his face," says his grandson Andor. Abraham was known for thumping children with...
...this assignment that it would be rough emotionally, and it has been. But I'm not surprised." What Feinberg will admit is that the experience has caused him to recalibrate his job description. "In dealing with these claims," he says, "you're only 10% lawyer. You're 40% rabbi and 50% shrink...
...DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, scholar, ordained rabbi and best selling novelist whose books described conflicts between fathers and sons and tradition and change; in Merion, Pennsylvania. In such novels as The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, Potok (born Herman Harold Potok) gave an insider's view of Orthodox Jewish life in the U.S. and described his own struggle between secularism and orthodoxy. But his books found a universal readership and Potok referred to himself as 'an American writer writing about a small and particular American world.' DIED. MILDRED 'MILLIE' DEEGAN, 82, star of women's professional baseball...
...DIED. DAVID ASSEO, 88, Chief Rabbi of Turkey and advocate of interfaith tolerance; in Istanbul. Asseo was the leader of Turkey's small Jewish community for 41 years, and nursed it through the 1986 terrorist attack on Istanbul's Neve Shalom Synagogue in which 22 people were killed...