Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drew up financial timetables. ceos called, urging Powell to run. Congressmen pledged their silent support; some sitting Democratic lawmakers quietly pushed Powell to jump into the race, even as a Republican, because the Democratic Party, they said, was beyond repair. Governors indicated they were ready to endorse. Duberstein's rabbi pulled him aside before service one Saturday morning in September and asked, "Is he going...
...news of the assassination sent thousands to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the wall that Rabin had helped capture as the Israeli army's chief of staff in the Six-Day War of 1967. Scores of mourners brought candles to stand sentinel over both Rabin's private home on Rabbi Ashi street in Tel Aviv and his official residence in Jerusalem. Said one mourner in Jerusalem, pharmacology student Dganit Safrai: "This is the end we can expect for someone who makes peace. He was so strong, it seemed as if nothing could happen...
...service ended with the Mourner's Kaddish led by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold. The audience joined in this prayer and in the singing of the Hatikvah to express the universal hope of freedom and peace...
...Williams keeps talking about reform,'' says Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, a former police commission president, "but I did not see him lift a finger to implement it." Greenebaum recently resigned to protest a scandal in which Williams accepted free lodging during five trips to Las Vegas, then lied about doing so. The city council backed Williams over Greenebaum's police commission, but Williams filed a claim against the city for leaking the report, then settled out of court--a shabby little sideshow to the O.J. spectacle...
...twice a year. But not everyone is as thrilled with the lure of Miami Beach as a same-sex social cornucopia. Locals have complained about noise and lewd behavior outside some nightclubs. "That's not the kind of society we want to see," says Phineas Weberman, a local Orthodox rabbi who claims that many tradition-minded families are abandoning the heavily Jewish area because of their new neighbors. Critics in other parts of Florida warn of dark--if vague--consequences. "You are going to have a lot of people over the years who are offended by the large number...