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Kabbalah, a course of study separate from the traditional study of Jewish law and customs, comes from texts written around the 13th century, according to Rabbi Meir Sendor, who was attending a conference at Hillel yesterday...
...Everyone turned to him and said, ‘What did you just say?’,” Heymach remembers, which then prompted Robbins—now a Rabbi in the Philadelphia area—to repeat the doomsday prediction. He concluded, “‘What do I care? There are two outs. We’re going...
...their concerns seriously. They are rankled, for instance, over an August administrative appeals court ruling to reinstate two 11-year-old boys who had hit and insulted a Jewish classmate at Paris' élite Lycée Montaigne. "Now it's the victim who has to change schools," as Rabbi Claude Zaffran puts...
...says. He feels that many French Jews who see Israel as the promised land will be equally disappointed. "People's hope in France is failing, but they don't really know Israel; it's just a dream for them." When members of his congregation ask for his advice, Rabbi Zaffran reminds them that it's not easy in Israel. "The salaries are lower, and especially with lots of kids, it's not easy to make ends meet," he tells them. He's staying with his congregation for now, but when he retires in a few years, it's likely...
Many Jewish leaders regard the two measures as a double-barreled assault on their faith and the Jewish state. Says interfaith veteran Rabbi James Rudin: "They turn back much of the achievement of the last 40 years." But the resolutions actually reflect two different--and mutually hostile--constituencies. The divestment was backed by the liberal Presbyterian majority, which traditionally tempers its affirmation of Israel's right to exist with concern for Palestinian welfare. The margin for continuing Messianic funding was provided by an increasingly powerful evangelical minority. Some church activists seem honestly taken aback by the two measures being linked...