Word: rabbis
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...more. At major Reform gatherings, half the heads are covered; congregants hunger for once discarded traditionalism. Says Rabbi Paul Menitoff of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, who shepherded last week's new Statement of Principles: "Our grandparents' challenge was to become acculturated. Our challenge is to be more in touch with our roots...
...little too radical for some. Ronald Sobel, senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, New York City's largest Reform synagogue, says that in elevating ritual to parity with ethics, the guidelines constitute "a distortion of the uniqueness of Reform Judaism." Since the principles are not compulsory, they will continue to be debated by Reform Jews everywhere. But after the measure passed in Pittsburgh, the "for" voters linked arms with the "against" voters, and all joined in the traditional prayer song Shehechiyanu. The words are Hebrew. Everybody knew them...
...Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, who came across Eric Harris' home page on America Online some six months ago but didn't include it on their CD-ROM directory of hate sites. "It didn't have explicit threats against any individual or institution," explains the center's associate dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper. "We see very, very ominous websites regularly--by the hundreds...
...victims. "Hate is available in many flavors on the Internet," says Raymond Franklin, a Maryland police executive and publisher of the Hate Directory. He says that neo-Nazis could take advantage of what was until recently a largely young white male audience online--a fertile recruiting ground. Rabbi Cooper too is worried about such groups' having "unassailable full-time access to America's young people in the most powerful cultural medium ever created...
...knowing collection of nine unorthodox stories about Orthodox Jews that should make their author persona non grata in the devout enclaves of his co-religionists. That reaction would be understandable. Englander, once Orthodox himself, tells tales out of shul that include the title story, in which a rabbi grants an unhappy husband permission to visit a prostitute. Yet Englander's apostasy is always affectionate and imaginative. The Gilgul of Park Avenue, for example, offers up a Wall Street Wasp who inexplicably discovers that he has a Jewish soul. The domestic and professional ramifications read like a collaboration between Cynthia Ozick...