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...Williams keeps talking about reform,'' says Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, a former police commission president, "but I did not see him lift a finger to implement it." Greenebaum recently resigned to protest a scandal in which Williams accepted free lodging during five trips to Las Vegas, then lied about doing so. The city council backed Williams over Greenebaum's police commission, but Williams filed a claim against the city for leaking the report, then settled out of court--a shabby little sideshow to the O.J. spectacle...
...twice a year. But not everyone is as thrilled with the lure of Miami Beach as a same-sex social cornucopia. Locals have complained about noise and lewd behavior outside some nightclubs. "That's not the kind of society we want to see," says Phineas Weberman, a local Orthodox rabbi who claims that many tradition-minded families are abandoning the heavily Jewish area because of their new neighbors. Critics in other parts of Florida warn of dark--if vague--consequences. "You are going to have a lot of people over the years who are offended by the large number...
...DIED. RABBI BARUCH KORFF, 81, who founded the quixotic National Citizens' Committee for Fairness to the Presidency to root for Richard Nixon--a year before Watergate blew the Chief Executive from the White House; in Providence, Rhode Island...
Geller isn't someone you would expect to have such diverse interests. he comes from a line of rabbis stretching back eight generations. His great-grandfather was brought from Galicia to become the spiritual leader of Corpus Christi, Tex., according to Rabbi yaakov Geller: From Galicia to Texas, a book about the Geller family authored by Mike's cousin...
Born in Los Angeles, Geller moved with his family (his dad is a rabbi and a doctor, and his mom is a psychiatrist) to Denver, Colo., where he was raised as an Orthodox...