Word: rabby
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...career, McCormack was also a strong advocate of civil rights legislation. He once denounced a Mississippi Democrat on the floor for his bigotry. He was always cordial toward the Jewish community, and his first appointment to the Naval Academy was a Jewish youth: some of his constituents called him "Rabbi John...
Cabalistic Wisdom. Agam was born Yaacov Gipstein in Rishon le Zion, when Israel was still Palestine. The son of a cabalistic rabbi, he never entered a school until the age of 13 and even now credits much of his thinking and visual vocabulary to cabalistic wisdom. Since Judaism forbids the creation of graven images, he searched for ways and means of producing a "living" art, one that while not depicting reality would yet approximate its changing character. After moving to Paris in 1951, he developed an interest in science and technology, which in turn led to his experiments with optical...
Double Duty. The son of a New York rabbi, he graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High, where Woody Allen was a contemporary. Then came Harvard and graduate school and the first of the flops. It was called Sing Muse, a spoof on the classics that Segal was teaching, and it was written as a Harvard house musical. It was good enough to attract an off-Broadway producer, but outside the congenial connnes of the academic atmosphere it lasted only 39 performances
...only other Harvard student besides Plotke whose case came up Wednesday was Joseph R. Rackman. a second-year law student and an ordained rabbi. He was found innocent of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly...
...applications will vary, the document does mean that a mixed marriage "for serious reasons" may now be performed by someone other than a Catholic priest or deacon -such as a Protestant minister-and it opens up the theoretical possibility that a mixed couple could be joined by a Jewish rabbi or even a Buddhist priest. A "serious reason" might be the forceful objection of the non-Catholic partner's parents to a Roman Catholic ceremony. The Catholic partner will in any case continue to be required to promise "to do all in his power to have all children baptized...