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Herzog spoke briefly prior to the signing about his birth during the turbulent Irish revolution to Ireland's Chief Rabbi and of growing up in Dublin's Irish-Jewish ghetto...
Leah Hochbaum giggles a lot for a radical fanatic. But the 26-year-old mother of two from New York City possesses a will of steel and a boundless faith that she is obeying God's commandment. When she heard Manhattan Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach say it was a Jew's duty to reclaim all the land of biblical Israel, she believed, and she came, not just to the Holy Land but to the very heart of the struggle, to the West Bank city of Hebron. After a year in the confines of the Avraham Avinu quarter, one of six minuscule...
...unruly story lines did not go unremarked upon by early ecclesiastics trying to create systems of Scripture-based faith. St. Jerome, who translated the Word from Hebrew into Latin, grumbled that many of the narratives were "rude and repellent." A medieval rabbi, borrowing an image from the story of Noah's drunken disarray after the Flood (9: 21), suggested that "as dutiful children, let us cover the nakedness of our fathers in the cloak of favorable interpretation." Something of the sort eventually occurred. The Christian church developed a set of interpretations according to which the patriarchs prefigure Christians as heroes...
...inclined to read the text in the light of our own 'culture.'" Concludes Mathews: "Are we submitting to the picture of God in Scripture? Or are we putting ourselves over Scripture and rewriting it in terms of our own preferences?" Similar sentiments have been expressed by Orthodox Rabbi Shalom Carmy of New York's Yeshiva University and Moyers panelist and Catholic priest-professor Alexander Di Lella...
...Conservative synagogue Chizuk Amuno will mix with parishioners of Saint Matthew Catholic Church, with its 40% minority membership. Saint Matthew's Father Joseph Muth says he is seeking "an opportunity for folks to see across church and racial lines through discussing these basic stories." Chizuk Amuno's Rabbi Richard Camras concurs. "Everybody sees [the stories] as sacred," he says; their power derives in part from their subject matter, the "jealousy, sibling rivalry, wanting to strike out at your neighbor, the things we face every...