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...PHRASE] Allen is (and isn't) Philip Roth...
...Kabbalists, especially those influenced by the wildly creative Jewish renewal guru Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, tailor their teachings to the spiritual aspirations of liberal Jews, rather than revive the Orthodox devotion that was the Kabbalah's original context. Another thing entirely is the empire of Kabbalah Learning Center leader Rabbi Philip Berg, which claims to serve 10,000 students through programs in eight countries. Berg offers a profitable self-help program featuring a regimen of personal "corrections"; devotees like Hollywood producer Sandy Gallin admit its basics are similar to those offered by Deepak Chopra or Marianne Williamson. Yet the center seems...
...backyard, ensconced in a cozy black leather armchair, Rabbi Philip Berg, 68, is presiding over a hushed celebration of the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkoth. As the garden party proceeds, he remembers when he saw the Light. "When you meet your master, it takes but a minute," says Berg, referring to the late, hallowed Kabbalist Yehudah Brandwein. "The Light simply turned on." The enlightenment was passed on by marriage as well: Brandwein's niece became Berg's first wife. Since Berg met Brandwein in 1962, the Brooklyn-born leader of the Kabbalah Learning Center has pursued a single mission...
...Everybody is offering an opinion on something they really don't know anything about," said Philip Cronin '53, who was a classmate of Zobel at Harvard and was president of The Crimson while Zobel was assistant sports editor...
Shortly after, when Vogel announced that Jiang would answer a question from the audience, Philip J. Cunningham, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard on leave from Tokyo's Japan Times, seized the opportunity to shout out, "I have a question...