Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sholom B. Scheiner, rabbi of the Chabad of Cambridge, said the organization did not receive official permission to hand out flyers, but he was unaware of College policy regarding flyer distribution...
Suggestions ranged from Jorge I. Dominguez, Dillon professor of international affairs, to Rabbi Sally Finestone, member of the United Ministry at Harvard/Radcliffe...
...Kabbalah is heavier on the pocketbook. Classes are reasonable, as little as $10, but costs escalate with the purchase of the center's books and tapes. For example, its 24-volume edition of the Zohar, in Aramaic and Hebrew, sells for $345, three times the price of similar compilations. Rabbi Michael Skobac, a consultant for Jews for Judaism, has received complaints of aggressive and unethical door-to-door solicitation by center teachers. In addition, some members report feeling squeezed for cash. "At the center, they say you can only make a difference when you give until it hurts," says...
...concerned about their relatives' overzealous commitment to the center. Students often spend Jewish holidays with Berg; a few become hevra, volunteers who live and work at center facilities. "My husband took our daughters there," says a Long Island, N.Y., homemaker. "My eight-year-old said, 'When you look into Rabbi Berg's eyes, you see his soul, and he's beautiful.' I ask you, is that normal?" Their marriage fell apart after her husband insisted on spending Rosh Hashana at the center...
...race-hate groups, however, are more sophisticated. According to the TIME/CNN survey, 75% of white teens and 55% of black teens say they have access to a computer with Internet capability at home or school. There they may find that hate groups are also plugging in and logging on. Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center says the number of "hate sites" on the Internet--ranging from the Aryan Dating Page to the Nigger Joke Center--has doubled in the past eight months and stands at more than 500. "Lunatic fringe does not translate into lack of sophistication," says...