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...Rabbi) Allan Meyerowitz Spring Valley...
Shuster, 48, and her husband Nachum, 64, an Orthodox rabbi, came from Israel and have owned the three-story house for only eight years. But by local standards that makes them oldtimers. Atlantic City's history is conveniently divided between B.C. and A.C.-before and after the casinos. Since the first casino opened only three years ago, the Shusters are definitely B.C., and so, of course, are their guests. They are a vanishing breed, living life slowly in a town that wants to move at top speed, watching with dismay as old landmarks give way to new parking lots...
Repeated denials by archaeologists and other scholars that any graves exist on the controversial site met with incredulity among the ultraOrthodox. Israel's Chief Rabbi, Shlomo Goren, who had earlier issued a ruling forbidding the dig, made a dramatic appearance on national television, displaying a few teeth and photos of human bones, which he said he had gathered while secretly scouting the area. Said Goren: "I found the bones with my own hands. I dirtied two suits. I have a whole sack of bones I could have brought with me." The mounting opposition to the excavations caused Begin...
...would apply only to Jews who have been converted according to Orthodox law. Although few people would be affected, the change amounts to an attack on the validity of Reform and Conservative Judaism. As such, it would inevitably antagonize many Jews in the U.S. and elsewhere. Said Rabbi David Leiber, president of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles: "We believe in religious pluralism. We object to having a monolithic standard imposed on the Jews...
...Rabbi Rubin Dobin, 65, from Miami, the national chairman of the American Anti-Nazi Association, who lost 85 relatives in the Holocaust, brought two stones. "One is for the 6 million, and one is for a memorial to the 5 million non-Jews who were killed," he said. "The Holocaust was a Jewish sorrow, but Jewish sorrow is enveloped in world sorrow...