Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cameo roles, such as Yente the match-maker (Kamala Soparker) and the Rabbi (Peter Reale) are also noteworthy, While both characters are traditional stereotypes, Soparker and Reale put in enough energy to keep them from going state. In fact, the only minor character that does not transcend his stereotype is the Fiddler himself, whose obviously fake board emphasizes his obviously fake fiddling. But since the fiddler mainly appears on the rooftop, or peaks around the corner of the set, he does not direct from the overall effect...
Amendment opponents insist that organized, vocal prayer can never be truly voluntary. Children of different faiths, or none, will feel themselves forced by social pressure to join in. Contends Rabbi Balfour Brickner of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "If the prayer is spoken, it will be physically coercive, and if silent it will be psychologically coercive." The alternative, opponents contend, is to offer prayers so general as to be meaningless, even offensive to the truly religious. The establishment of a neutered "civil religion" is offensive to many who believe deeply in their own faiths. Says Robert Minor, professor...
...Rabbi Stephen Listfield Washington...
Steiner said that Rabbi Ben Zion Gold, director of Harvard Hillel, and other leading authorities had advised him that it would be acceptable for students to attend Commencement...
...added that Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, a former president of the American Jewish Congress, wrote to Dean Rosovsky that "This holiday is a particularly auspicious time to celebrate educational achievement, and it is very consistent with Talmudic Law for a Jew to attend Harvard Commencement on that...