Word: reubens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cahns moved to Washington, D.C., where they raised two sons, Reuben and Jonathan. By 1971, as co-deans of the Antioch School of Law, the high profile couple had received so many death threats that they needed bodyguards. The boys' mixed ancestry caused near riots at their public school. One principal said they "brought a dark force to the school" and called for their expulsion...
...generational wheel has turned. In 1990 young Reuben married Marna, a white Lutheran from rural Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. Although both a rabbi and a minister officiated, none of Marna's relatives, except her mother, attended the wedding. Her father fumed, "I can't believe you expect me to accept a black person, and a Jewish one at that!" But with the birth last year of towheaded Aaron, Marna's family softened considerably...
...will not overlook her past. Says Professor Daniel Polsby: "This woman set a bomb off in the U.S. Capitol, for heaven's sake! And then she says, 'Ha, ha, I'm not sorry.' This is a school of law, not a dental school!" Counters Dohrn's former attorney Don Reuben: "She picked herself up from her past and has done socially good work for years now. What do they want her to do? Do they want a public flogging...
...festival's appeal stretched beyond Cambridge. Desmond McAuley, 34, is an architect from Wayland who used to work in the Square. He and his dog, Reuben, came to town for the day. "It was just something to do," McAuley said, "That, and it was Reuben's public debut...
Wisse, who contributes regularly to the Canadian Jewish News and has been a frequent contributor to Commentary magazine, is a "very, very" outspoken conservative in American and Israeli politics, said Rabbi Reuben Poupko of Montreal's Beth Israel Beth Aaron congregation...