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...with a pool of student suggestions that ranged from DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. to Rabbi Sally Finestone, member of the University Ministry at Harvard-Radcliffe, Lewis announced in mid-March the first of two appointments: that of Diana L. Eck to head Lowell House along with her partner, Dorothy A. Austin...
...most Jewish Israelis feel and act as a single people, a family united by its religious heritage, whether its members choose to observe its rules to a greater or lesser degree. The populace in Israel is not polarized, nor on the brink of a religious civil war. RABBI AVI SHAFRAN New York City
...religious Jews think they own Israel, despite the fact that it belongs to a secular government. Israel's Jews should live in peace with one another. RABBI SHIAH T. DIRECTOR New York City...
...rabbinical monopoly on marriage and burial is increasingly controversial, especially in light of the mass immigration from the former Soviet Union. Immigrants who are not officially Jews, meaning their mothers are not Jewish or they have not been converted by an Orthodox rabbi, cannot get married in Israel. There are very few places where they can be buried. After one such teenager died in a recent terrorist attack, his corpse wandered the country looking for a final resting place. A man was dug up five years after his death when rabbinical authorities questioned his Jewish credentials...
...chauvinism. Last June in Jerusalem rioting haredim pelted men and women with excrement for praying at the Western Wall in a mixed group. In 1996 haredi "modesty patrols" began attacking women on Jerusalem's streets for exposing their arms or legs. Secular women were offended last year when Rabbi Yosef pronounced that men should not walk between two women, just as they should not walk between two donkeys, lest they take on the attributes of these lesser beasts...