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...elaborate theology that explains everything. There is the dry Deism of many of America's Founding Fathers. There is the cafeteria Christianity of, say, Thomas Jefferson, who composed a new, shortened gospel that contained only the sayings of Jesus that Jefferson inferred were the real words of the real rabbi. There is the open-minded treatment of Scripture of today's Episcopalianism and the socially liberal but doctrinally wayward faith of most lay Catholics. There is the sacramental faith that regards God as present but ultimately unknowable, that looks into the abyss and hopes rather than sees. And there...
...bread Presbyterianism to the admission that his mother was a Sephardic Jew, from the famed Lumbroso family. By week's end, Allen-the least likely Semite in Christendom-was sitting there stunned as cnn's Wolf Blitzer rattled off the list of brilliant Lumbroso ancestors: doctors, historians, the chief rabbi of Tunis! The Senator argued that his mother had been traumatized by the Nazis; her father had been pulled from his home in the middle of the night and sent to a concentration camp. She wanted to protect her children from the lethal plague of being Jewish...
Your friend, author Amy Tan, once said that you're "the rabbi of everybody." Do you feel comfortable in that spiritual adviser's role...
...have made a new beginning." RABBI WALTER JACOB, who last week ordained three rabbis in Germany--the first to be ordained in that country since the Holocaust...
...visit has also sparked uproar at Harvard. Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, who opposes Khatami’s visit, told the Boston Herald that he had received e-mails and phone calls from offended alumni and students all over the world...