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Manned by James Carroll, Boston Globe columnist and former Catholic Priest; Rabbi Sanford Seltzer of Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline; Christoph Wolff, celebrated Bach scholar and Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; and Stephan Jay Gould, a self-proclaimed "agnostic Jew" and Harvard professor of paleontology, the panel neither skirted nor mistreated the issue...
...Rabbi Seltzer concentrated on the immediate, practical effects of the St. John Passion. His eye-opening speech revealed the dichotomy between Jewish and Christian impressions of Gospel texts and the symbol of the cross, noting that these key-stones of Christian heritage (and consequently much of Christian liturgy) implicitly blame Jews for the events of the Gospels. Both he and Carroll traced a connection between this unavoidable implication and the history of anti-Semitism in Western and especially German culture that has more or less continuously marked two millennia of Christian tradition...
Daniel C. Levi '99-'00, of Deerfield, III., the son of a rabbi, insists he is still Jewish, saying he first learned about Buddhism through books. Separating Buddhist practice from the spiritual experience of being Buddhist, Levi says meditation can be a good "psychological tool" for dealing with the stresses of daily life...
President Neil L. Rudenstine and Rabbi Sally Finestone, a member of Harvard's United Ministry, also attended and spoke at the gathering...
Some Forum grads weren't sold. Rabbi Yisroel Persky, 24, who chose to get his money's worth and take "The Forum in Action," today remains "unfazed" by what he calls the Forum's common-sense concepts cloaked in esoteric packaging. For Richard Giordanella, 49, a software executive, the Forum was enough: "I'm still high on the Forum's main message, that my life is in my control. But I can do without the narcotic effect of their reinforcement...