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Israeli Jews like to tell an old fable of a Russian Jew who goes to his rabbi in search of a job. The rabbi instructs the man to stand at the village gate each morning and wait there to greet the Messiah when he comes. For this, the rabbi offers the man a ruble a month. "The pay is so low," the man complains. "Yes," says the rabbi, "but the job security is excellent...
...young stand-up and the only one not on Leno's payroll, sitting in like a rookie playing with the first team. (Leno will be hiring a staff of six or seven writers for the Tonight show -- which will include some of this group as well as a rabbi from New Jersey and an ad executive from Philadelphia, both longtime contributors to the Leno joke chest...
...Levin who in the early 1970s spawned the idea of renting space on a satellite to relay TV signals. A Philadelphia native who once planned to be a rabbi but switched from religion to philosophy at Haverford College, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and practiced briefly before joining Time Inc. in 1972. His notion of bouncing movies off satellites and into living rooms from Boston to Berkeley helped transform Home Box Office from a struggling service into the biggest pay channel in the U.S.; combined with its sister Cinemax service, it now has nearly 24 million...
Benevolence and Betrayal has heroes as well as moral lepers. Rabbi Riccardo Pacifici risked his life by staying in Genoa after its occupation by German troops to minister to the city's large Jewish refugee population; he was one of some 7,000 Italian Jews to die in concentration camps. Carlo Schonheit, a cantor from Ferrara, and his son Franco were among the handful who survived Buchenwald, the horrors of which Alexander Stille describes with chilling understatement. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, the frail Archbishop of Genoa, unhesitatingly agreed to carry on the work of a Jewish relief organization after...
...Romance, and Rejection: Life on Campus--by Rabbi Sally Finestone, acting director, H-R Hillel, 74 Mt. Auburn...