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...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...
BORN: Nov. 19, 1942, Brooklyn EDUCATION: Queens College, B.A., 1965 FAMILY: Wife, Rita; three children RELIGION: Jewish MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Teacher; publisher and editor; advertising executive POLITICAL CAREER: New York Senate, 1979-83; U.S. House, 1983- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 95, Fresh Meadows...
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...
...least accomplished establishing that there is a need for an activist coalition on campus that is diverse," said Rita Rasogi '99, a participant at the meeting...