Word: rivkin
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...Tonics, Harvard's third oldest a cappella group, was founded in April 1979 when J. Patrick Whelan '82, R. Andrew Reinhardt '82, and Robert S. Rivkin '82 decided to form a singing group...
...twist" is what Rivkin calls the "irreverent showmanship" of the Dins--their concerts are half Carnegie Hall, half sketch comedy, and include almost as many parodies and caricatures as they do songs...
...number of historians, however, have proposed detailed theories that minimize Jewish involvement -- including that of the Jewish religious leadership. Ellis Rivkin of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, contends that real religious courts were separate from the Sanhedrin, the council of Jewish functionaries that dealt with Jesus after his arrest. He depicts the Sanhedrin as a political body that collaborated with the Roman occupation forces and lacked any religious legitimacy. "Neither ((Jesus')) religious teachings nor his beliefs could have been on trial -- only their political consequences," says Rivkin. In his book, though, Brown sifts the ancient documents, Jewish and pagan...