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Some veteran Jewish leaders draw inspiration from the new groups. "They're a reminder that we need to welcome unconventional approaches to Jewish life," says Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism. Rabbi Niles Goldstein, a co-founder of the New Shul, a progressive Manhattan congregation, occasionally leads outdoor prayer sessions. "Who wants to sit against hard-backed pews?" says Goldstein. "I'd much rather sit up against a tree...
...learned the weekend before last that he would be serving as interim president, wrote that he has “simply not had time enough to speak intelligently about curricular reform at Harvard...
...Some Faculty members hope, however, that Bok will play an active role in curriculum reform...
...made his goal harder to achieve by picking fights with faculty members, making disparaging remarks about entire categories of academics (such as women in science) and, probably most important, vetoing tenure cases that had been elaborately assembled by individual departments. It looks as if the collapse of his curriculum-reform effort, which ended with a report calling for almost no core requirements, led to the bitter departure of yet another dean, which set off the endgame of his presidency...
...Hamas, having assumed responsibility for managing the infrastructure of Palestinian life and ensuring Palestinian well-being, continued terrorism - which would provoke Israeli retaliation and international sanction - would carry a potentially prohibitive political cost. Instead, Hamas will focus largely on domestic political reform on assuming the reins of power, and it will likely simply agree to disagree with Abbas on the issues of recognizing Israel and embracing existing treaties. But not embracing those treaties doesn't necessarily mean negating them. Hamas may calculate that as long as it refrains from terror attacks and delivers on promises of good governance...