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Fawzi's fear that loss of tradition can result in a decline in the quality of life, reminiscent of Carl Asakawa's theme, is a favorite topic of another Widener scholar and one of Fawzi's friends who joined him for lunch that day. This retired rabbi and teacher, who asked that his name be withheld, has camped in a Widener stall since 1958 investigating the relationship between customs and daily life for the Jews of the late Middle Ages. His scholarly interests, the rabbi said, lie in examining customs as a basis for case study and in putting customs...
...drank a cup of strong tea, the rabbi explained that the association of tradition and scholarly pursuits has been an integral part of his life since his Midwestern boyhood. There his father, an East European immigrant, educated himself each night with Bancroft's History of the World while fostering in the boy a "love of learning" of the past and of tradition. The rabbi suggested that his early congregation was an expression of that love but he found that, during the McCarthy era, he would have more freedom working with college students. Consequently he served as rabbi of two college...
...that emerged during the long primary season-a Northerner's suspicion of a politician from the South, an apprehension about a contender lacking experience in national Government and a displeasure about what has been perceived (however incorrectly) as Carter's fuzziness on specific issues. In addition, as Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, President of the American Jewish Congress, points out: "There's no national Jewish leader who can actually say, 'Jimmy Carter is my friend...
...special issues that seem to concern Jews is Carter's evangelical Southern Baptist faith (see RELIGION). In a recent letter to Reform Jewish leaders across the nation, Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, President of the American Union of Hebrew Congregations, recalled that "historically, anti-Semitism had its roots in fundamentalist religion." But he immediately added that it "is unjust and paradoxical for religious Jews to look askance at a man because he is deeply religious...
...prominent place in the history texts: The Vice President Who Resigned in Ignominy. As it is, he will be recorded merely as a footnote to Watergate. The speed with which he was forgotten was remarkable; after he left Washington on October 10, 1973, there were no prayers offered by Rabbi Korff, no million dollar interviews with David Frost, no Woodward and Bernstein account of his (and Judy's) final hours. It was not long before many had forgotten that he had not been felled by the Watergate scandals but had pleabargained his office away in exchange for immunity from prosecution...