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...former Northwestern basketball coach; shot in the Chicago suburb of Skokie while jogging with his children. Byrdsong, who was black, was shot in the back in what was apparently a series of drive-by shootings targeting minorities over a 10-mile area. Six Orthodox Jews walking home from Sabbath services were wounded, and shots were fired at two Asian Americans. Police were searching for a white man in a blue...
...Talmud speaks of establishing a "fence" around the law, making restrictions that may not make sense in and of themselves but that serve to keep one away from more serious violations. (For example, because one is not allowed to transact with money on the Sabbath, one is not allowed even to touch money on the Sabbath.) The prohibition we have today--no selling of any organs, from the living or the dead--is a fence against the commoditization of human parts. Laudable, but a fence too far. We need to move the fence in and permit incentive payments for organs...
...Reform service each Friday night, as well as a monthly Reconstructionist service. We have also created a "Floating Learning Service," which meets once a month in one of the upperclass Houses and is designed to appeal to Jews of all backgrounds who wish to learn more about Sabbath prayer and observance. After all of these services, the entire community joins together in Hillel's dining hall for a communal Sabbath meal which is open to all undergraduates. MICHAEL...
Students who are religiously observant here sometimes participate in groups that provide fellowship and common worship, while others often do so quietly, but decisively. My first-year roommate, a devout Mormon, took seriously the commandment "to keep the Sabbath holy." She never did school work on Sundays. Even before final exams, she would study for the first part of the weekend then would rise early on Monday morning to finish whatever she had left undone. She used her Sunday as a day of reflection, prayer, church activities and "catching up" with family and friends...
Happily, religious observance at Harvard does not end with Sabbath worship, but moves into the world as students put their faith into action in service to the Harvard community, to Cambridge, Boston and to the world beyond. Don't believe me? Ask someone from the Catholic Students Association and you'll find out those who fast on Ash Wednesday--the first day of the Lenten period preceding Easter--have usually been able to donate the raw cost of their meals to international hunger relief programs. Jewish students on campus were able to do something similar when fasting during Yom Kippur...