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That realization is sinking in with some socially conscious rabbis. In Febuary, Rabbi Meir Kessler from Kiryat Sefer called two late-night meetings in which 3,000 parents were urged to warn their children that even men in beards and hats are capable of evil. The rabbi's candid sermon has stirred debate among the shuttered Haredim. One stunned participant told reporters that "not since Moses" had a rabbi spoken publicly on such forbidden sexual topics. The spate of abuse cases prompted Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Yona Metzger, to call on his fellow religious leaders "to vomit these parents...
...schedule presumably packed with planning the details of her incipient administration, President-elect Drew G. Faust neglected to attend the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony. This spring, however, she has indicated that she will grace the proceedings not only with her presence but also with a short sermon...
...Moyers, who seems to be spending the rest of his life over-atoning for his service as Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam spokesman, occasionally betrayed an anachronistic liberal masochism in the interview. Indeed, Wright tried to balance his "God Damn America" sermon with the acknowledgment that you can say that sort of thing in America, "whereas some other places, you're dead if you say the wrong thing about your government." But instead of saying, "Amen, brother," Moyers replied, "Well, you can be almost crucified for saying what you've said ... in this country...
Could he explain the context behind the sermon he gave after September 11, 2001? "Have you heard the whole sermon? No? That nullifies that question." How does he respond to critics who charge that he is unpatriotic? "How many years did Cheney serve?" Does the fact that Obama says he never heard Wright's most controversial sermons mean he's not much of a churchgoer? "He goes to church as much as you do. What did your pastor preach on last week...
...opponents to a Palestinian state. One senior police officer told TIME that Israeli security forces are on alert in the Palestinian territories for a possible revenge attack by settlers against Arab villages. In the old city, police barred Palestinian men under the age of 45 from attending the Friday sermon at the holy al-Aqsa mosque...