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...president of the American Jewish Committee. Participants in next week's papal exchanges were also pleased. The Pontiff has asked for 90 minutes of open, frank dialogue on Catholic-Jewish relations, without set speeches. "We were told the Pope wanted a man-to-man, heart-to- heart discussion," said Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee. "We took it as a sign of good faith...
...Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of Harvard Hillel said hethought von Weiszacker was an excellent choice asCommencement speaker. He also attacked those whowere critical of the West German president. "It isparticularly disturbing because people have becomeguilt peddlers," Gold said...
...clowning, his play-acting, his sometimes arrogant, sometimes mysteriously gentle defiance and mocking of both prisoners and guards, he sweated prodigiously, throughout his stay, from what must have been nervousness. He talked a great deal, in a way that at times made you think of a childlike rabbi or sweet, mysteriously innocent old Russian priest and at others times reminded you of an elderly archeologist in his comfortable classroom, musing and harking back...He pretended to enjoy the official opinion of the court, that he might be mad. 'I am the Rock,' he said thoughtfully, nodding. 'I am Captain Marvel...
Sofer, the son of a noted rabbi, is a silver-haired bachelor known for squiring an array of beautiful women around Jerusalem. He began building his fortune in the 1970s by discovering oil in the Sinai peninsula, then racked up more profits by speculating in the wildly bullish Tel Aviv stock market of that period. Sofer today maintains a suite in the Jerusalem Hilton, which he bought in 1982 for $18 million in partnership with a group of U.S. investors, among them Fort Worth Oilman Louis Barnett. The SEC claims that Sofer shared his illegal stock tips with Barnett...
...three chaplains, Reverend Diane Moore and Father Maurice Loiselle, survived from the beginning of the month until Valentine's Day on clear fruit juices, water, mineral water and herbal teas. The other, Rabbi Albert Axelrad, ended his hunger strike one day earlier than the others...