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Late Bat Mitzvahs were the remedy. At first they took place outside the normal congregational context. "It was, talk to a rabbi, rent a hall, have your own experience," says Grant. But gradually, congregational rabbis realized that adult Bat Mitzvah classes drew spiritually curious baby boomers and--as it turned out--were a kind of synagogue superglue. They increased morale, turned a cadre of highly motivated women into fully equipped leaders and eventually attracted men who had somehow forgone Bar Mitzvah in their youth...
...asks a lecturer. His class replies, "No." "But did Jesus raise his hand and say, 'I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?'" Again, 20 voices call out, "No!" (The instructor confirms the quote but says that it was taken out of context...
...hand there are those who share the view of Jack Brock, pastor of the Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, N.M., which made worldwide headlines for its "holy bonfire" in December 2001, in which Harry Potter was among the books burned. The incident was taken out of context, says Brock. "The media made me look like Hitler." But that said, he still would do it again. "They [the books] are totally, completely, entirely about witchcraft," he told TIME. "The next book, I understand, will be 700 pages long, and it's just going to be going deeper and deeper into witchcraft...
...Supreme Court has struck down a variety of set aside programs that gave special benefits to minority businesses over the last two decades, and the five justices that normally make up the Court's more conservative majority have been sharply critical of most considerations of race in any context. The Supreme Court wasn't alone in its concern about affirmative action. The State of California banned affirmative action in 1996 and a Federal court had outlawed preferences in college admissions in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi...
...mini-series Hitler: The Rise of Evil [TELEVISION, May 19] reported that many people were concerned that this biography of Adolf Hitler would risk humanizing the tyrant--as if this were a bad thing! What better way to combat evil than to understand it in its full context? We must comprehend all the facets--human and inhuman--of Hitler's life in order to appreciate fully the horror that his hate brought to the world. In refusing to pay attention to the disturbing ways in which Hitler may have resembled a normal person, the world runs the risk of allowing...