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November 25, 1999

Symphonic Globe Trotter

It says something about Gisele Ben-Dor\’s dedication to her profession that when she made her conducting debut with the Israel Philharmonic in 1983, she was nine months pregnant.\nHer concluding piece was Stravinsky\’s \”The Rite of Spring,\” which, in view of her particular condition, was renamed by the orchestra as \”The Rite of the Offspring.\”\n\n

Changing the Climate of Hatred

Over the weekend Prime Minister Ehud Barak came to New York seeking stronger American Jewish support for the accelerating Mideast peace process, and by and large he will get it.\nBut two recent incidents point to the obstacles he faces in settling the lingering qualms of a significant proportion of the Jews who care about Israel\’s future in a changing region — qualms that could eventually undercut the support he desires.

Out and About

A newspaper office is, in some ways, a hot-house world. There are those insistent deadlines every week; copy to edit; layouts to peruse; the telephone and e-mail increasingly the link to a world that\’s outside.\nBut then — thank goodness — there are those forays out of the office. They turn out nearly always to be a surprise; nearly always a learning experience.\n\nI had three such experiences this past week.\n\n

Jewish Philanthropy, From A to C

There was a sort of informal poll conducted among the delegates who gathered in Atlanta last week for the annual assembly of America\’s Jewish welfare federations.\nThe agency that convened them, the newly-designated United Jewish Communities, had scheduled a series of discussions for the assembly\’s second day on the four \”pillars\” that sum up its mission: Jewish renaissance, social services, Israel and overseas needs, and fundraising. Delegates were free to pick their \”pillar.\”

Saturday, November 25

Rabbi Steven Greenberg usually kept quiet through the gay jokes. After all, he had been in the closet in the Orthodox community for 20 years, so he was used to smiling through the ridicule, through tirades about same-sex marriage.

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