Word: yeshivas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...autobiographical in the sense that any one of the characters represented a totality of my Yeshiva experience. When I was in Yeshiva, I was neither one of the "stark" guys, one of the guys on the inside, who was fiercely loyal to the rabbis and their ideas, nor was I one of the parking lot guys who stood on the outside looking in and sort of denigrating what was going on inside. I was actually a personality that I didn't really show at all, the person who was very committed and devoted and stayed on the inside...
DreamWorks flew in dozens of religious experts and clergy for repeated discussions about the film. And Katzenberg did his homework, reading up so extensively on the Bible that he began to sound more like a yeshiva student than the college dropout he is. But as Katzenberg discovered, everyone's a movie critic. An elderly Fundamentalist minister didn't like the drawings; a rabbinical scholar complained that in the Bible "God has a great line" that wasn't in the film, and also objected to the fact that Moses, who should be around 80 when he returns to confront Rameses, looks...
...effects-laden extravaganza that undoubtedly cost far more than the $75 million claimed by DreamWorks. And the film seems to have the support of a goodly portion of religious communities, from liberal Christians to conservatives Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson to Rabbi Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, and Muslim leader Maher Hathout. "Hollywood got this one right," Falwell says. Evangelist Robert Schuller has even laid hands on Katzenberg and blessed him. The executive says he will gladly accept all the help he can get. If family audiences pause from their enjoyment of Paramount's Rugrats or Disney...
...organizations blindly. "He says he wants to see results on the ground," says Yisrael Medad, a settler activist. According to some sources, as much as $18 million has come from his foundation to underwrite the budgets of settler organizations, build college dorms in the territories and support an Orthodox yeshiva critical of peace proposals. It even brought in American students to bolster Israeli morale during Scud-missile attacks in the Gulf...
Bitton explained that devout youth may join the Hesder, a program that sponsors a year of training in a Yeshiva in return for two years of military service...