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Gary Rosenblatt

Gary Rosenblatt

Medical simulation technology wins Ziv $100K Bronfman Prize

Amitai Ziv, recipient of the $100,000 Charles Bronfman Prize in May, would like to see his work in medical simulation — a discipline that trains doctors and other health professionals to avert errors in times of crisis — expand to the entire Middle East, and well beyond the field of medicine.

Rabbi Gafni Ousted for Misconduct

Rabbi Mordechai Gafni\’s dismissal came last week after four women, including students of his and a staff member, filed complaints of sexual misconduct against Gafni with the police in Israel.

A Filmmaker’s Monument to Dad

Of his father, Nathaniel Kahn knew the myth; he wanted to know the man. Five years ago he set out to make a documentary film about the work and life of Louis Kahn, and his quest has taken him down many paths. It has led him to professional fame and success with the critically acclaimed film \”My Architect,\” and to a warm and close friendship with a Jewish communal executive who helped raise the funds to make the film possible.

In Search of Moderate Muslims

Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of Islamic law at UCLA, estimates that two years ago he received between 30 and 40 requests from around the country to participate in interfaith dialogues between Jews and Muslims.

Last year he received just one.

\”They just vanished,\” he said during an interview. \”Such invitations are a barometer of the level of dialogue, though my experience may not be representative because of my own idiosyncrasies.\”

Joining ‘Gangs’ to Work With the Best

When the now-legendary film director Martin Scorsese first discovered Herbert Asbury\’s book, \”Gangs of New York,\” in 1970 and decided to make it into a film, Rick Schwartz was a 2-year-old growing up in a modern Orthodox home in Teaneck, N.J.

Back to Center for YU?

Will Richard Joel — elected Dec. 5 as Yeshiva University\’s (YU) new president — redirect the flagship institution of modern Orthodoxy from its rightward move of the past several decades back toward the center?

That\’s a question being asked in the halls of YU and throughout the community at the culmination of a long and difficult search process for a successor to Dr. Norman Lamm, who has guided the institution since 1976.

Closed Chapter

\”One People, Two Worlds\” (Schocken Books, $26) the title of the current book by a Reform rabbi and an Orthodox rabbi exploring the issues that divide them, proved to be all too accurate this month when the Orthodox author, Yosef Reinman — under pressure from religious leaders in his Charedi community — canceled a 17-day, 17-city book tour that was to begin Sunday with co-author Ammiel Hirsch.

The Necessary Fight

With all the discussion, confusion and controversy about the Bush administration\’s planned actions against Saddam Hussein, it\’s ironic that President Bush, a born-again Bible reader, appears to have rejected the Christian position and adopted instead the Jewish stance on self-defense and responding to evil people.

The Necessary Fight

With all the discussion, confusion and controversy about the Bush administration\’s planned actions against Saddam Hussein,it\’s ironic that President Bush, a born-again Bible reader, appears to have rejected the Christian position and adopted instead the Jewish stance on self-defense and responding to evil people.

Losing the War for the Temple Mount

While the military conflict between Israel and the Palestinians continues, there is one war the Jewish state appears to have lost — without even a struggle.

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