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...secular society. "Angels are reassurance that the supernatural and the realm of God are real," says Richard Woods, a Dominican priest and an author of books on angels and demons. "They are a reaffirmation of the traditional vision of a Christian world when that vision is under attack." Retired rabbi Morris Margolies, author of an upcoming book on angels in Judaism agrees. "We're living in an era very similar to the Maccabean era for the Jews," he says, "where disaster confronts us on all sides. People are looking for simple answers...
...literal translation implies, Dor Yeshorim's goal is to ensure that the children born of Orthodox parents are safe from certain genetic diseases whose occurrence is disproportionately higher within that close-knit community. Launched ten years ago by Rabbi Josef Ekstein to test for Tay-Sachs Disease, Dor Yeshorim has expanded its scope to include three other genetic diseases. More than 8,000 people entered the program last year alone...
...Yeshorim is not the Frankenstein its critics fear. Diseases like Tay-Sachs are a serious problem within the Orthodox community; four of Rabbi Ekstein's 10 children died from it. That medical technology can prevent this should be seen as a blessing. Dor Yeshorim sidesteps the question of abortion by preventing the conception of babies doomed to suffer...
...When the rabbi, or any other official, asks for opposition to the eternal union of two people, a six-digit ID number should not answer the call...
...generational wheel has turned. In 1990 young Reuben married Marna, a white Lutheran from rural Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. Although both a rabbi and a minister officiated, none of Marna's relatives, except her mother, attended the wedding. Her father fumed, "I can't believe you expect me to accept a black person, and a Jewish one at that!" But with the birth last year of towheaded Aaron, Marna's family softened considerably...