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October 16, 1997

Up Front

Rob Eshman October 16, 1997

Last Tuesday evening, we had dinner with Dick Morris. Can you think of a more fitting person to dine with during these days of atonement? Dick Morris: one-time adviser to the president of the United States. Widely credited with winning President Clinton\’s re-election. Caught on a tabloid video, sucking a prostitute\’s toes in a Washington hotel room. Admitted to letting his special friend listen in as he consulted with the commander in chief. Fired. Mocked gleefully by the media. Told to take a hike by his attorney wife,Eileen McGann. Dick Morris is the poster boy for atonement.\n

Accepting Judaism as a Privilege

Rabbi Ed Feinstein October 16, 1997

One Sunday morning, many years ago, as parents came to pick up their kids from the Hebrew school where I taught, I overheard a conversation. \”How was class?\” A father asked his son.The child began to whine. \”I hate Hebrew school,\” he said. \”It\’s boring and stupid, the teachers are mean, and the kids aren\’t nice. I don\’t want to go any more.\” The father stopped, turned to the kid,and said: \”Listen, when I was your age, I went to Hebrew school and I hated it. It was boring, the teachers were mean, the kids weren\’t nice, but they made me go, and, now, you\’re going to go too!\”

What a tragedy.

Spectator

Naomi Pfefferman October 16, 1997

Actors Leo Penn and Eileen Ryan are husband and wife and the starsof Graham Reid\’s \”Remembrance\” at the Odyssey Theatre. And their son,Sean, the movie star and director, has put up much of the money to bring them together onstage for the first time in 40 years.\n

Conspiracy of Censorship

Eric Silver October 16, 1997

Israeli reporters are no slouches. They have better sources and tend to understand more than their foreign brethren.

Taking Off the Mask

Jewish Journal October 16, 1997

This is an old game of ours, thepost-holiday auditing of the rabbi\’s performance, commentingcaustically about who was chosen to open and close the ark, to do aspecial reading or carry the Torah scrolls. I knew he expected me to engage with him.\n\nThis year, I wasn\’t playing.

Letters

Jewish Journal October 16, 1997

Letters

Beyond the Classroom and Themselves

Beverly Gray October 16, 1997

Milken, affiliated with Stephen S. Wise Temple, kicks off itsschool year by sending students and faculty on a three-day Shabbaton.Under the majestic oaks of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in SimiValley, participants schmooze and discuss, laugh and pray.

Dear Deborah

Deborah Berger October 16, 1997

Letters to Deborah Berger-Reiss.

Sinai Temple Opens Center for Judaic Studies

Rob Eshman October 16, 1997

With a faculty of noted scholars, Sinai Temple has adapted an \”adult education\” program with an eclectic curriculum that is carefully designed to satisfy a wide range of interests, from serious courses in Jewish spirituality, and discussions of the Jew\’s role in Society to special classes in Jewish rituals, and interactive sessions for improving synagogue skills, Hebrew reading and lessons in cantillation. Two seminars are scheduled: from October through January and February through May.\n

One People: Religious Christians and Jews?

Judy Gruen October 16, 1997

Most of the mainstream secular Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Congress would like us to think so. But a recent gathering in Washington proved that a grass-roots movement is taking hold among Jews — not only the Orthodox — whose views are economically,politically and socially more in line with members of the Christian Coalition than with either the ADL or the AJC.

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