Word: rabby
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...personalities in U.S. religion? The Protestant weekly Christian Century asked 35 experts in the religious and secular press and found the "clear winner" to be Evangelist Billy Graham. Other members of the top ten in order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty, President Jimmy Carter, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, Oral Roberts, Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, Jesse Jackson, Anita Bryant and William P. Thompson, the chief executive of the United Presbyterian Church. Lest the survey be taken too seriously, George Burns, star of Oh, God!, got two votes...
...memorial service by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold will be held in the auditorium of Longfellow Hall on December 2 at noon...
Arabs regard the proliferation of Israeli settlements as proof that Israel will never surrender the West Bank and is not much interested in going to Geneva anyway. Inadvertently, Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren may have provided further support for that view. "Geneva is like the next world," he said. "It is a beautiful place to be, but you try everything you can not to go there too soon...
...Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, said yesterday the election of Mitchell K. Ross '78 represents the final stage of Harvard Hillel's three-part transition from a rigid president-vice president structure to the more cooperative system of a chairman elected by the 12-member coordinating committee...
...19th century - George Washington's letter of good wishes to the city's Jewish congregation dated 1789 is the book's epi- graph - but most of those Adler meets feel that they remain in Georgia on the most precarious kind of sufferance. Their prudent rabbi has eliminated Hebrew from most of the ritual, and their new temple, Adler notes wryly, lacks only a cross to make it indistinguishable from a church...