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...Connor's attack enraged Osbourne, a flamboyant performer who first won fame singing with a group called Black Sabbath. The singer's onstage artistry has included such excesses as biting the head off a bat. Osbourne, who has fended off a lawsuit claiming his songs prompted a youth to kill himself, fired off a telegram, informing the Cardinal that he had "insulted the intelligence of rock fans all over the world...
...when Jews feel compelled to write in protest of Israel, let their motivation be something other than Judaism the religion (unless you are protesting Israel's operation of public buses on the Sabbath). Let your motivation be utilitarianism, deontological liberalism or even Arab nationalism--for these at least can be real sources of criticism of Israel. But don't write the criticism "as a Jew" or "as a Zionist." The tradition of Moses, Samson and David simply cannot back up your views...
...very religious person in that I do not attend Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) and other holiday services regularly and I have doubts about what Jenny Cavilleri of Love Story refers to as "the God-blessing bit," I often find it difficult to integrate the religious and cultural aspects of being Jewish. I grew up almost implicitly recognizing the influence that Jewish habits, mannerisms, sayings--in short, Jewish culture--had on my lifestyle...
Goodman describes in "Variant Text" an agnostic but rigidly observant househusband who wears an Abortion Rights button to Sabbath services and responds to a colleague's questions reagarding his faith with, "When you read a book, do you have to know the author to enjoy...
...prejudice. President A. Lawrence Lowell advocated national immigrant restriction and a quota on Jews at Harvard. Other Harvard officials urged limiting the Harvard Corporation to Protestants, to keep out Catholics and Jews. President Charles Eliot propounded the usual stereotypes of powerful Jewish capitalists and suggested that Jews move their sabbath to Sunday to comply with Blue Laws...