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...Thank goodness Rachel N. Reingold, a Cornell University graduate who spent a semester in Cambridge interning for the National Labor Relations Board, didn't know where she was going. After dining at Harvard Hillel with her sister, Deborah Klapper, the wife of Hillel's Rabbi Robert Klapper, she could not seem to find the way back to her apartment. Ernest I. Mandel '01 came to the gallant rescue and offered a walk home...
...opened in January 2000 and hosts more than 1.7 million visitors monthly. There, I can flip through religions as though leafing through a newspaper. I can pray for sick children or spouses of other visitors or (knock on wood) request they pray for me. Questions? I can "Ask the Rabbi," "Ask the Imam" or "Ask Father Ted." Formerly an editor at US News and World Report, Waldman noticed that religion covers always sold well, yet there were no mass-market religion magazines. Half of an interfaith marriage, he was also inspired by personal experience: "I was having trouble getting...
Bruce Chilton, a religion professor at Bard College whose book Rabbi Jesus was published in October, says recent scholarship finds a great deal more meaning and joy in the proceedings. Pilgrimages were festive occasions, with families or friends traveling together and camping overnight in the hills around the city and singing cheerful sacred songs outside the Temple. Although parts of the sacrifice would be immolated for the Lord or consumed by the priests, others would be cooked and shared by the pilgrims, who ate little meat the rest of the year. "Not only would they offer this very scarce protein...
...family values, not property values, that motivated Rabbi Perry Netter and his wife Esther, a museum executive director, to begin birdnesting in 1997, when it became clear that their marriage had soured. Their three children, then ages 7 to 12, continued to live in the Netters' five-bedroom Los Angeles home. Perry and Esther rented an apartment around the corner and swapped residences every Monday. "Children need stability, and we were trying to provide that," says Perry. The arrangement cushioned the impact of the separation on the Netter children. Though only one parent lived with them at a time...
...possible witnesses connected to the clemency granted to four Hasidic Jews from the New Square, N.Y., community, for instance, have already testified. The four were convicted of stealing more than $30 million in government funds by establishing a fictitious religious school; their sentences were commuted after the Grand Rabbi of their ultra-Orthodox community arranged a Dec. 22 meeting at the White House with both Clintons present. New Square had voted almost unanimously for Hillary Clinton in the New York Senate race. But, said a lawyer familiar with the case, even if Hillary had promised to lobby her husband...