Word: rabby
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German Department will offer a full-year course in elementary Yiddish next fall. Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society, will teach the course which is limited to 20 students...
...breakfast with Singer, his wife, Rabbi Gold from Hillel House, and a friend who was cager to meet Singer, I realized why the author seemed so familiar. I.B. Singer looks like anybody's grandfather. His white, parchment-like skin stretched tightly over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence...
Singer's family was shocked when he decided to become a writer instead of a rabbi, yet he is a deeply religious man. Though he believes in the importance of tradition, his decision was a singfficant break with his heritage. To the Jews of the ghetto, secular writers were dangerous heretics. But Singer remained close to the Jewish traditon...
...will not serve the interests of Israeli self-determination nor the interests of peace to railroad American Jewish radicals into carte blanche acceptance of all acts of the Israeli government. It would be tragic to remember only (and thus pervert) Rabbi Hillel's injunction, "If we are not for ourselves, who will be for us?" and to forget that he added. "But if we are for ourselves only, what are we? If not now, when...
...Miss Jacqueline Grennan and became vice president of New York's Academy for Educational Development, where she studied ways to expand independent study in U.S. colleges. She also married Paul J. Wexler, the Jewish president of a mail-order recording company, in a Catholic ceremony at which a rabbi assisted...