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...intercessionary prayer. He said he wanted to become a resource for others, but clearly he was also on a personal quest to examine the frontiers of his own mortality. Companions joined him on his exploration. His daughter Dara, a theology student at Harvard with plans to become a rabbi, embarked on a chaplaincy internship at a Boston hospital. The confluence of her father's terminal illness and her career choice created opportunities for a unique dialogue. As a doctor, Frimmer had helped Dara with her science homework in high school. Now, as a patient, he helped her with her study...
...after all, Jackson never even finished his Ph.D.--but Oxford has been host to celebrity speakers before, including such noted intellectuals as Jerry Hall and O.J. Simpson, and the school is still standing. Jackson's appearance, which will take place at the Oxford Union in February, was brokered by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Oxford alum, author of Kosher Sex and frequent Howard Stern radio guest. The two were introduced through mutual friend Uri Geller, famous bender of spoons. "I went to meet him, and, honestly, I fell in love with him," says Boteach. "He truly wants to restore children...
Gathered around the floodlit enclosure at midnight, they sing that he will make peace: ya'ase shalom. The words refer to God, but as 300 worshippers thump tambourines and clap their hands in the warm night, they have someone else in mind. It is the rabbi. He shuffles through the crowd, small and bowed. They touch him for his blessing. He is a tzaddik, a holy man, a saint. "I will clean the people," he mutters. His arm winging like a metronome, Rabbi Yaakov Ifargan slings candles into a brazier until the flame rises 20 ft. and wax sizzles onto...
...wish for a miracle. But in Israel today it's a question of the kind of miracle you're looking for. The most controversial point in Israeli domestic politics is the way the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party uses mystical faith to cast an aura of purity around its machine. Rabbi Ifargan, 34, is the most prominent new leader in a wave of cabalistic mysticism sweeping Israel, particularly among the 60% of the population known as Mizrahis, who emigrated from North Africa and the Middle East. Though Ifargan has no official link to the Shas, the party has capitalized on that...
...that time he was five years into his second marriage, one that friends say confirmed him in his impulse to become more observant. Hadassah Lieberman's father was a rabbi in Czechoslovakia. Both her parents were Holocaust survivors. A graduate of Stern College, the women's school of Orthodox Yeshiva University in New York City, she helps raise money for women's health care in Israel and keeps a kosher household, with separate plates for meat and dairy dishes. The Liebermans met in a very old-fashioned Jewish way: through a matchmaker. "Religion centers me," Hadassah told TIME last week...