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First, religious Jewish students who opt out of dorm life often do so out of their conviction that dorm life prevents them from following the Jewish laws of personal modesty properly. This decision, which is usually made by, or with, the help of the student's rabbi, neither implicitly nor explicitly judges "all of their classmates." It is a decision made to allow a religious Jew to follow Jewish law as closely and honestly as possible...
...always wanted him ot join the Rabbinate," said Gell;s clergyman, Rabbi M. Robert Syme of Temple Israel. "His brilliance of mind is accompanied by a beauty of character...
...Rabbi William Lebeau gives the final eulogy of the day. He speaks of Jonathan's "joy" in teaching and, in a tacit reference to the murder, warns against cynicism and despair. Even God despaired, he says, when he decided to drown the world. It took Noah to prove that a human being could be a worthwhile invention...
...interdenominational Board of Ministry includes Chittick, Chrisman, Gomes, Mikelson, Rabbi Sally Finestone, Father George Salzman, University Marshall Richard Hunt, Samuel T. Lloyd III of Trinity Church, Boston, and Rev. Victor H. Kazanjian Jr., Dean of Religious Life and the Chaplaincy at Wellesley College
...says he can accept some Jews "slipping out of the community and coming back when their existential needs require them." But he rejects patrilinearity, and Conservative thinkers have suggested a communal triage that would concentrate on a congregation's observant "core" rather than chasing those on the "periphery." Meanwhile, Rabbi David Hollander, a leader of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, a vocal minority group within the Orthodox movement (the smallest and most traditional American branch), fumes: "In a generation or two, we won't know who is and who is not a Jew. " The wrangle, never dormant, has been inflamed...