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...Stewart so memorably sang, that the first cut is the deepest. Everyone has a favorite early Streep film, a Sophie's Choice or an Out of Africa. But if the first piece you ever saw her in was 2003's Angels in America, those roles--the Mormon mom, the rabbi, Ethel Rosenberg--would be just as indelible. "I asked her, 'How in God's name did it ever occur to you to make Ethel funny?' says Nichols, who directed Angels. "I'm surprised by her every single day we shoot." She may have more surprises...
...Rabbi David Rosen, who heads the American Jewish Committee?s interfaith office, said he was ?disappointed? that there wasn?t a more explicit reference to German responsibility. ?He speaks like [the Nazis] just dropped in out of nowhere,? Rosen said. ?That?s just a little bit facile.? But the rabbi ultimately thinks this pontiff is committed to keeping strong ties to Jews, judging by his presence here and words that were ?saturated with his sense of bonding with the Jewish people...
...wasn’t much in the way of organized activity,” Keller said. But “it is kind of striking that the students were as active as anybody else,” he added. Last night, Harvard Hillel sponsored a talk by Auschwitz survivor Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director emeritus of Hillel, who spoke about his experience in the Holocaust. Members of Hillel will read names of the murdered from a microphone on the steps of Widener Library from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m today. Hillel’s Rabb Hall will also be open...
...attacked Israel for "domestic repression," Hertzberg rebuked him for "old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism." Determined to entwine Judaism with social causes, he called the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum the "national cathedral of American Jewry's Jewishness" and suggested Jews expand their focus. Instead of offering "platitudes," he said, "a rabbi should be where the real issues of society...
...stands nervously in front of a lectern, adopting the rote singsong of a 13-year-old giving her Bat Mitzvah speech. She thanks the rabbi and the relatives who came from Florida, Australia and "all the way from Century Village." She praises a Jewish upbringing that on holidays "gave me the opportunity to dress like a doily and sit in the corner in silent anger while the rest of my family discusses in a whisper whether or not I'm a lesbian." Rebecca Drysdale, it so happens, is gay (and does a nifty Dr. Seuss parody about how the butch...