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...different approach to the increasing reality of intermarriage. We must become much more welcoming of the non-Jewish spouse. Refusal to permit intermarriage has failed as a deterrent mechanism. We must try another way. If a non-Jew wants to marry a Jew and is prepared to have a rabbi participate in the ceremony, a rabbi should be willing to lend his or her Jewish participation to so important an event. In every way, Jews must become more welcoming of anyone who wants to be part of our heritage...
...with Evangelical Christians to chip at the wall between church and state seems as contestable as Dershowitz's pro-secularism. But the issue of whether to respond to intermarriage by widening "outreach" to Gentiles or narrowing more closely on faith fuels a simmering debate within Judaism's major branches. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the pre-eminent voice of America's liberal Reform movement, detects "a degree of [religious] involvement that far transcends anything we've seen before." Yet it was Reform that in 1983 felt it necessary to assert that Jewish lineage, which traditionally passes through the mother, could be transmitted...
...Prison Rabbi Ari Shapiro and the six students recreated the Passover event for about 10 inmates. The model Seder was held a day before the actual celebration because the students were leaving for home to spend the holiday with family and friends...
Hyman said that the idea was inspired by Joshua D. Fine '96, who has attended Seder in a maximum-security woman's prison in New York each year in his capacity as the son of the facility's rabbi...
...drunk. A thousand track switches have to click in sequence for the child who starts out toward greatness to wind up there. If a single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of both biology and biblical law at Yeshiva University in New York City: "I can make myself an Albert Einstein, and he may turn out to be a drug addict...