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...Rashi Fein, professor of economics of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said he would favor a single payer plan over Clinton's proposed health care plan...
...Rashi Fein, professor of economics ofmedicine at the Medical School, while callingClinton's speech an excellent "call to arms," saysa single payer system, similar to Canada's, wouldhave been a better choice. Universal insurancewould not be paid by employers, but by abroad-based tax based on ability to pay, in aversion of Canada's much-touted health caresystem...
Professor of the Economics of Medicine Rashi Fein, who attended Kennedy'sspeech, said the senator's proposal would avoidthe rationing of health care...
...Mount lest they accidentally step on the site of the ancient Holy of Holies, where only the high priest entered, once a year. In addition, there are various views over how and when a new Temple could or should be raised. The Babylonian Talmud offers conflicting opinions, but Rashi, the great medieval sage, insisted that the Temple must descend directly from heaven when the Messiah comes. On the other hand, tradition holds that God's biblical command to build the Temple is irrevocable, and the Jerusalem Talmud says Jews may construct an intermediate edifice before the Messianic...
...will stand like Rashi and Maimonides," says Israeli Historian Zeev Katz, daring to compare the contemporary rabbi with the two great Jewish sages of medieval times. The assertion that Steinsaltz is a once-in-a-millennium scholar is particularly remarkable coming from Katz, a leader of Israel's association of secular humanists. But the diminutive, soft-spoken Steinsaltz inspires superlatives from all Jewish factions. In recognition of his achievements, he has just been named winner of the 1988 Israel Prize, his nation's highest honor. The rabbi greeted the news with characteristic mirth: "Gee, one gets that a year before...