Word: rita
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...simply that a double standard exists. I understand that my point may have been ambiguous and unclear. It may have been easy to misinterpret my intentions. If so, I apologize to anyone who was offended. I thank the Hillel and other individuals for bringing this to my attention. Rita...
...Reported by Ann Blackman/Washington, Wendy Cole/Chicago, Rita Healy/Denver, Melissa Ludtke/Cambridge and Lisa H. Towle/Raleigh
...suppose that there's an opening for someone to call Orthodox Jews like me "fundamentalists" because we take the Torah--Biblical and Rabbinic law--so seriously and without emendation. Perhaps Rita Lin needs to be reminded that these laws--which we obey seriously and without emendation--include loving ones neighbor, returning a lost object and giving charity to the poor. I remember what the rabbis used to tell me in the Orthodox yeshiva (school for higher Jewish education) in Israel that I attended for a year. One rabbi there explained to me once how it was wrong to borrow someone...
...Jewish fundamentalists, usually referred to by the more polite term 'Orthodox,'" writes Rita Lin, in an essay about prejudices against Islamic Fundamentalism. I'd like to introduce myself: I am an Orthodox Jew, living in Eliot House here at Harvard. I don't own a gun, I don't belong to a terrorist organization, I don't have any dreams for world domination, and I don't go around blowing up buses...
RODERIC SLAYTON (D) District 7 BORN: May 14, 1960, Charlottesville EDUCATION: Mary Washington College, B.A., 1982; U of Richmond, J.D., 1985 FAMILY: Wife, Rita; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Orange town council, 1989-93, mayor, 1989-93 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1282, Orange...