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Zamir Chorale of Boston--commemorates the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. Joshua Jacobson, conductor. Is the expulsion of Jews from Spain really something to commemorate? Millenium Ensemble-Theodore Antoniou, music director. Boston University. Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Thursday, Feb. 6,8 p.m. Free...
...endorsement of religion, and it is hard to imagine that a child would not feel pressured into joining in. Particularly in deeply religious communities, atheist and agnostic families are often afraid to protest. "In many areas no one complains when the church starts creeping into public life," says Jay Jacobson, executive director of the Arkansas affiliate of the ACLU. "We get calls at the beginning of the school year against a generic prayer at football games, but no one is willing to file an official complaint. The Bill of Rights is not self-enforcing...
...latest charges come from some of those other women. Acting on a tip, several patients requested genetic tests, which revealed the doctor himself had fathered their babies. According to the indictment, Jacobson conned patients into thinking he had an elaborate system for matching sperm donors to particular physical, mental and social characteristics. But in some cases, says the government, he was the sole donor...
...Jacobson faces 53 felony charges. At his arraignment late last week, he proclaimed his innocence. His attorney asserted that if the doctor had used his own sperm, he had done so in the interests of providing a sample that was "clean and good" in a time of AIDS...
...disturbing case of Dr. Jacobson underscores a problem that has plagued the booming field of infertility medicine. Doctors can claim to be experts on the basis of scant experience or training. There is no board certification and little regulation. Now Jacobson has single-handedly made it time for the Federal Government and organized medicine to crack down on those who prey on the infertile...