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...previously issued Psalms and a dozen other biblical books, the new Jewish Bible is finally complete. This last section was translated by three U.S.-trained experts: Moshe Greenberg and Jonas Greenfield of He brew University in Israel and Nahum Sarna of Brandeis University. They were assisted by Novelist-Rabbi Chaim Potok (The Chosen), who served as coordinator and literary consultant. The Holy Scriptures will certainly stand as a landmark of Jewish religious scholarship...
...always have been an honorable man-now I am an honorary member of the Society," Rabbi Gold joked yesterday at the post ceremony luncheon held at the Fogg Art Museum...
...Stan Daniels, Ed. Weinberger, the great David Lloyd. The Taxi characters were so much like us, and so good at it. The Sunshine Cab Co. was a place to work in that became a place to live in. And your co-workers became your friends: Alex the off-duty rabbi, and sweet dim Tony, and Latka the gentle schizoid. And Reverend Jim, phoning in his blissed-out wisdom from Planet X. And Elaine, the only woman, who desperately wanted to be somewhere else but couldn't leave the place she knew as home...
...Rabbi Kahane condoning the murder of Arabs as they assemble at one of the holiest of mosques? Kahane's vicious tongue is a danger to Middle East peace...
Devils or not, Dershowitz has been called into cases, often on appeal, by a long list of people in serious trouble. Among them are Nursing Home Operator Rabbi Bernard Bergman ("the meanest man in New York," suggested the Village Voice), Patricia Hearst, F. Lee Bailey, a few alleged Mafiosi, Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky and Deep Throat Star Harry Reems. Now, in addition to helping Von Bülow, Dershowitz is likely to take on the appeal of Jack Henry Abbott, the inmate-writer who was convicted of manslaughter after Author Norman Mailer and others had helped to get him paroled...