Tommy Lapid, who has made a second career hammering the ultra-Orthodox, says he didn\’t go into Israeli politics in order to become a government minister. But the outspoken, 71-year-old veteran journalist is suddenly warming to the prospect.
Can religious leaders be devout but not fanatic? Can fervent belief and tolerance coexist? Such questions are hardly academic these days: the results of religious fanaticism now consume headlines, and lives. One set of reassuring answers can be found in the life of Rabbi Benzion Uziel. Uziel served as the Sephardic chief rabbi of Palestine and then the State of Israel from 1939 until his death in 1953.
In \”Loving Truth and Peace: The Grand Religious Worldview of Rabbi Benzion Uziel\” (Jason Aronson, Inc., $30) author and rabbi Marc Angel tells the story of this remarkable man.
When one person helps another person, it\’s a mitzvah. When 1,500 people from 30 different organizations join together to help out in over 50 volunteering projects, it\’s Temple Israel of Hollywood\’s (TIOH) Mitzvah Day.
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