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| The Thing Jews Have Learned: That Is Patience |
| 1/11/2000 |
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Diary of a Chief Rabbi
A few days ago I had a visit from Professor Hans Kung, the well known Catholic theologian who in recent years has become one of the great campaigners for a 'global ethic'. We spoke of many things including, of course, the current situation in Israel. After an hour, he began to look at his watch and as the minutes ticked by he became increasingly agitated. The car scheduled to pick him up was late, and he was obviously a man who valued punctuality. I said to him, ... |
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| It Was a Day When a Nail Made All The Difference |
| 1/10/2000 |
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Diary of a Chief Rabbi
It happened in the early nineteen-seventies. For the first time in our lives, Elaine and I owned a house and Sukkot was drawing near. We didn't have a car, and we were not quite sure how to get the materials to build a sukkah.
Help appeared in the form of one of the best friends we've ever had, Rabbi Shlomo Levin, now famous as the rabbi of the South Hampstead Synagogue, but in those days, just a co-worshipper in the little Habad minyan in Hampstead Garden Sub... |
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| Inspiration From Images of a Vanished World |
| 1/7/2000 |
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Diary of a Chief Rabbi
There are times when you know you are in the presence of greatness, and it happened to Elaine and I, last Shabbat. We had as our guest a most unusual woman, Yaffa Eliach. Yaffa is a historian, part of a family of outstandingly gifted individuals, but it is she who is unique because of what she has lived through and done.
Yaffa was born in a little Lithuanian town called Eishyshok, close to Radun, home of the saintly Chofetz Chayim. There had been Jews in ... |
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| Faith Has The Power to Transform The World |
| 1/4/2000 |
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Diary of a Chief Rabbi
When academics claim to know the future, beware. To give just three examples from recent history: none of the army of Cold War analysts in the West predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall or the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the single most significant political event of modern times. Nor did the futurologists who published a book in 1990 entitled Megatrends 2000 even hint at the growth of the Internet, the technological development which is currently chang... |
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