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...Israel for its new synagogue in April 1788. During the July 4 celebrations that year, he was too sick to leave his bed, but the parade marched under his window. For the first time, as per arrangements that Franklin had overseen, "the clergy of different Christian denominations, with the rabbi of the Jews, walked...
...easily imagine having a beer with him after work, showing him how to use a Palm Pilot, sharing the business plan for a new venture or discussing Bill Clinton's foibles and George Bush's foreign policy. He would laugh at the latest joke about a priest and a rabbi or about a farmer's daughter. We would admire both his earnestness and his self-aware irony. And we would relate to the way he tried to balance, sometimes uneasily, a pursuit of reputation, wealth, earthly virtues and spiritual values...
...body, wants to close. Muslim and Jewish leaders say the proposal smacks of cultural bias, and the shared threat has forged an unlikely alliance between them. At London's Central Mosque last week, some sat down together to plan their response. The Reverend Alan Greenblatt, representing Britain's Chief Rabbi, spoke for everyone when he said, "To use an appropriate metaphor, I'm stunned to find myself up here at all today." Most Jews and Muslims are confident that the government will reject the proposal in deference to cultural sensitivities, as it has done in the past, but the symbolism...
...pity that this is what draws the communities together, saying 'We want to kill animals like we've always done' - RABBI DAN COHN-SHERBOK
...Thomas Lyssy, vice-president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, concedes that some opponents were motivated by genuine concern for animals. But he says, "part of it was motivated by anti-Semitism, that's for sure. We had threatening letters." The F.A.W.C. has a surprising ally in Reform rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok, a professor of Judaism at the University of Wales. He argues that Jews can live perfectly religious lives without meat, as he has done for the past decade. There's no doubt, he says, that Shechita "was the most humane form of slaughter" when it developed over...