Word: yeshivas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wall for prayers celebrating the Sukkoth festival, they were ambushed by a mob of 3,000 Palestinians positioned on the Temple Mount above, hurling rocks at the rate of nearly 300 a minute. Simultaneously, Palestinians attacked and burned a police post on the Temple grounds and stoned a nearby yeshiva. When police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, the Palestinians locked the doors to the Temple Mount...
...Brooklyn, says Hartman, he "learned pluralism" by playing with blacks and Italians in the streets. Finally, at Yeshiva University, he bloomed intellectually. Becoming a rabbi at 23, he then spent five years knocking heads with the Jesuits at Fordham University. It was there that he encountered the great Roman Catholic philosopher, Robert C. Pollock, and there that he abandoned religious absolutism. Under Pollock's tutelage, Hartman developed the respect for religious tolerance that infuses his beliefs, and came to appreciate the American pluralistic experience as expressed in the writings of William James and John Dewey. After Fordham, Hartman doubled...