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Sometimes the most important conversations between a father and child are the ones that have to be slipped in edgewise. David Applebaum's daughter Nava, 20, was to be married last Wednesday in Jerusalem. Applebaum, who was ordained as a rabbi before he opted for a medical career, had already gone to some lengths to ensure that Nava was properly launched in her new status, compiling a booklet for her of rabbinical sayings, family aphorisms and his own thoughts about relationships and marriage. But he was determined to fit in one more chat with his oldest girl before she stepped...
...once performed emergency surgery in a Jerusalem street and being one of the first to arrive at the hospital after explosions. He was a comforting figure to ambulance drivers and paramedics, most of whom had trained with him. "He was everybody's parent, everybody's uncle," says longtime friend Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik of Chicago. It was this combination of eminence and accessibility that prompted New York University's Downtown Hospital to invite Applebaum to speak near ground zero the Monday before the Sept. 11 anniversary--and two days before Nava's wedding...
...Houston this month, Gibson screened the unfinished film for a group of Catholic, Jewish and Protestant leaders--all of whom signed a confidentiality agreement. That day one of the attendees, Rabbi Eugene Korn, director of Interfaith Affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, told the Houston Chronicle, "We still have grave concerns," and the ADL elaborated on them in a press release. This breach rankled other leaders, who signed a group letter sent privately to the ADL (a draft of which was obtained by TIME): "The Passion is a powerful and graphic film ... We do not all agree on the effect...
...Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, who expressed his own concerns about The Passion, says the center has received a flood of angry calls and rancorous e-mail. "Not all of them are hateful," he says. "Some of them invite us to become Christians." Hier won't demonize Gibson. "I don't believe he is an anti-Semite. But I do think he has a responsibility here. Wonders can be done to a film in the editing room. Corrections can be made. That is, if he's interested in healing this issue...
After the Leigh biography was published he asked Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Wiesenthal Center, to confirm whether his father had joined the Nazi Party--which researchers for the center eventually did, adding that he was no war criminal. Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger has had close Jewish friends from the time he left Austria. Paul Wachter, a financial adviser who heads Schwarzenegger's chief charity, the Inner City Games Foundation, is even chairman of the Austrian Holocaust Reparations Committee, a body formed by a U.S. federal court to administer the Holocaust settlement fund of the Austrian bank...