Word: rabby
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Consul." Hippies lie stoned and malnourished on the beaches of Goa: a young European woman sits for days in a stupor with her fatherless child hanging onto a withered breast; a cult of ritual murderers, known as the Anand Marg, stalks the streets for victims; an American would-be rabbi buys a six-year-old waif from her father and is shocked when she attempts to demonstrate her gratitude with sexual favors...
...character in a French farce, as a jealous husband prowls below. When he falls asleep he finds himself in a graveyard, playing with children long dead. In third-person tales, a homosexual's latent yearning for a woman leads to two murders and a suicide. In others, a rabbi contends with imps, demons, dybbuks and harpies; a woman sins with a fish and her child grows scales and fins; a eunuch tells of the daughters of Lilith who "fly around at night like bats and tempt men to commit abominations...
...Outreach, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Church World Service and the International Rescue Committee-are working alongside UNICEF and ICRC staffers. These groups are supported largely by private contributions from the U.S., where special church collections, newspaper ads, mail-in campaigns and benefits have reaped millions for Cambodian relief. Says Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee: "This isn't just a matter of dollars and cents and cans of tuna fish. This is a crisis of staggering magnitude." Interagency cooperation is the official policy in the camps. Nonetheless there is competition among agencies to be the first...
...Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, director of inter-religious affairs, American Jewish Committee: We in the Jewish community are deeply impressed with the Pope's charismatic power, intellectual sharpness and moral persuasiveness. His words at Battery Park were an embrace of love and respect from an international superstar ... There was a positive response to his making the tragedy of Auschwitz his point of departure at the United Nations. Among Protestant and Jewish representatives, I sense a feeling that inadequate respect has been paid to America's pluralistic reality. His itinerary basically ignored the 150 million non-Catholic Americans. America could...
...know I don't like to preach, Mark. But next time do it right. Shana tova, Maurice Davis, Rabbi...