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...commentator Mike Sexton. "Poker is seen as a competition and a sport now, not as gambling per se." These days, the Golden Nugget, whose poker rooms shut down in 1989, is holding tournaments seven nights a week. One Nugget regular is Steve Kaufman, 58, a university professor and former rabbi from Cincinnati, Ohio, who keeps a second home in Las Vegas, and placed third at 2000's World Series of Poker. Kaufman has wagered his chips in many places, including the big card clubs around Los Angeles, which offer fewer gaming options, but he prefers Sin City. "It's more...
...Boston Globe reported that in addition to members of its own faculty, the HMS review board includes a rabbi, a former nurse, a lawyer and several other experts uninvolved in the sciences, all but two of whom are in some way affiliated with Harvard...
...conduct a Mass for the dead amid still-constant reminders of the victims' tragic fate. The great majority if not the near totality of those killed were Jews from all over occupied Europe. The Pope prayed with genuine grief for the Christians. But why didn't he invite a rabbi and nine Jews to have a minyan to recite the Kaddish for these Jews without a grave, who had been assassinated and burned and whose cemetery lies in the clouds? Did he not take into consideration that, right at the spot where the ceremony was taking place, many extremely religious...
...also influenced by Steven Greenberg, an Orthodox Rabbi from Wisconsin who recently came out of the closet...
...Rabbi David Ellenson, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, said in a literary, humorous and at times quite personal discussion that the Jewish concepts of dignity and equality that stem from the creation of man in God’s image trump any other specific biblical mandates against same-sex marriage...