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Married. Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), 35, Brooklyn-born crooner; and Judy Rawlins, 27, his secretary; both for the second time; in a Middle Eastern Bahai ceremony in Beverly Hills, followed a few hours later by a civil service in Las Vegas, because, said Damone, though the vows of...
"From Moses to Moses." Maimonides lived at a time (1135-1204) when it was still possible for one man to aspire to master all knowledge, and he was equally famed as philosopher, physician, and interpreter of the Jewish Law. Of him it was said: "From Moses to Moses there is...
The Guide of the Perplexed, written in Arabic and published in 1190, was an attempt to resolve the intellectual difficulties of Jews confronted with the work of Islamic sages, who had discovered Aristotle and grafted his ideas onto the prevailing Neoplatonism of the age. This synthesis seemed so reasonable that...
A World Too Fragile. With the triumph of the Arabs in Egypt, the Copts were increasingly harassed and forced into lives of strict self-discipline in order to preserve their communities. Eventually, the pressures ground too fine, and the great tradition decayed as Copts found their world too fragile against...
Bahai began in 1844 when a young Persian merchant boldly announced that he was the Bab (Gate), the divinely inspired spokesman long awaited by Shiite Moslems.*Bab was arrested and shot by the Persian government in 1850, largely because his fanatical followers were plotting to overthrow the Shah and replace...