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...Some Jewish organizations, angered by language in an early version of a march manifesto implying disapproval of the level of U.S. arms shipments to Israel, also decided to withhold support. In the end, however, the offending passages were toned down, and one of the march prayers was led by Rabbi Alexander Schindler, head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
...cannibal galaxy-in astronomy, one of the vast colonies of stars that devour smaller galaxies. The cannibal stands for Europe, devouring its Jewish citizens. Such out-of-the-way images spring naturally from Ozick's prodigious erudition. This novel, like her earlier short stories and novellas (The Pagan Rabbi, Levitation, Bloodshed), is dense with metaphor, often drawn from the rich Jewish resources at her command: the Hebrew Bible, the Midrashim, or Jewish homilies, and the mystic texts of the Kabbalah. At the same time, as The Cannibal Galaxy demonstrates, she navigates the currents of other world cultures with...
...Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky New York City...
Other religious thinkers see no problem with a geneticist's manipulating DNA to eradicate dread diseases. Rabbi Seymour Siegel, professor of ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and the only clergyman on the President's bioethics commission, did not sign last week's statement...
...Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ. The political spectrum ranged from right-whig TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell to Bishop James Armstrong, the liberal Methodist who heads the National Council of Churches. Twenty-three Roman Catholic bishops added their names, as did Jewish Leaders Albert Vorspan and Rabbi Wolfe Kelman. The prestige of the clergymen, as well as the wide variety of their views on religious and social issues, gave special impact to their plea to Congress: ban genetic experiments by scientists that might change human characteristics passed along from one generation to its successor...