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Teaching, and going to rabbinical school might not seem like the most glamorous path for an Ivy League graduate to take, but Rabbi Judd K. Levingston '86 says that going to Harvard has helped him tremendously in his career...
...fact, Levingston did decide to go to graduate school, but it wasn't to study law or medicine. Instead, he enrolled in the Jewish Theological Seminary's (JTS) Rabbinical School and was ordained as a Conservative rabbi in June...
After the shooting last week, the Internet was peppered with hate messages like this one: "Recent events should remind jews [sic] that they are indeed an unwelcome minority in this country and should leave one and all...let the killings begin!" According to Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the number of hate websites has ballooned from one to more than 2,000 in the past four years. "The Internet has been the greatest thing since fire for these groups," says Roy. "They can potentially reach millions...
...none of motive. This was a day care center, a place for children to be safe in summer when school is out and their parents? work weeks continue unrelenting. The older children at the day camp were away at the time, touring the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, prompting Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of that sad shrine, to try to make a kind of insane sense of this installment of America?s recent ravaging by men and guns and news choppers. "It's ironic that the 20 children were here learning about man's inhumanity to man, when their...
...life had been useful, and many thousands of readers assured him that it had. Lewis died at 80, but he was fairly young when he did the bulk of his most useful work. "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be," cried Robert Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra. Not always. Poetry replies to Rabbi Ben with A.E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and comes up with no more startling a conclusion than that a life is what one makes...