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...ranging from arcana to kids' Kabbalah. Most intriguing, mysticism is increasingly viewed as the answer to what United Jewish Appeal officer Alan Bayer calls "a hungry, thirsty, bottle-of-water-in-the-desert need for connection with transcendent meanings" among ordinary Jews. Concludes Brandeis University professor Arthur Green, a scholar and advocate of mysticism: "For nearly 200 years, Western Jews tried to hide Kabbalah under the rug. Now it's been rediscovered and reclaimed as part of the Jewish legacy...
...only way for Americans to judge the virtue of such claims would be to read for themselves, previously a tortuous undertaking. But this year a Chicago foundation hired scholar Daniel Matt, author of The Essential Kabbalah, to write the Zohar's first complete English translation with commentary. Volume I is due in 2000. A long time ago, Hasidic sage Manahem Mendel of Perimishlany said, "Calling the wisdom of Kabbalah hidden is strange. Whoever wants to learn--the book is readily available." He didn't know how right...
...excellent scholar in the area of criminal law and is an immensely popular and effective teacher," Law School Dean Robert C. Clark said in a news release...
...which 10 of 11 graves are occupied by members of the class of '66, and that does not begin to encompass that class's contribution. When that run ends, you have five in a row from the class of '64. One belongs to John Hottell III--a Rhodes scholar, twice a recipient of the Silver Star--who was killed in 1970. The year before, he had written his own obituary and sent it in a sealed envelope to his wife. "I deny that I died for anything--not my country, not my Army, not my fellow man," he wrote...
...appointment that rational choice proponents point to as evidence of the continued pluralism of the department is that of Chinese scholar Elizabeth Perry...