The Bernard Madoff Scandal
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Reuniting Rama and Laksmi
Date: 11/19/2009
Reuniting Rama and Laksmi: What can two Diwali narratives tell us about living our lives today? When I was a child, every Diwali night before going to bed, our family did something which I thought was extraordinary. We unlocked and slightly opened the doors to our home. (That may not seem so extraordinary to some of you, but growing up in New York City it was!) The reason, I was ...
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Newcomers Top Annual List of Influential Jews
Date: 11/16/2009
(RNS) Reflecting a transitional period for American Jewish leadership, five newcomers top this year's list of influential Jews published by The Forward , the country's largest national Jewish weekly newspaper. The Jews crowning this year's "Forward 50" boast a range of achievements: Jerry Silverman, president of the Jewish Federations of North America; Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren; Sara Hurwi ...
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The Fort Hood Shootings and the White Privilege of Disassociation
Date: 11/09/2009
Immediately after it became known that the shooter at Fort Hood was South Asian and had a Muslim sounding name the condemnations came in from every major Islamic organization in America. In my inbox I got emails from Daisy Khan and Feisal Rauf, Eboo Patel, Shahed Amanullah and others expressing, on behalf of their religion, their sorrow and grief for the victims and the families of those who ...
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Did Madoff Atone on Yom Kippur?
Date: 09/29/2009
NEW YORK, Sep 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Bernard Madoff, architect of the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, had the opportunity to ask for forgiveness on Yom Kippur. Officials at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons would not comment on whether Madoff took advantage of the day, the most sacred in the Jewish Calendar, ABC News reported. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, began at sunset Sunday and ende ...
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Is There Jewish Forgiveness for Bernard Madoff?
Date: 09/25/2009
(UNDATED) Rabbi Peter Berg plans on reminding his congregants this month that the first question God asks when they reach heaven's gates is whether they have dealt honestly in business. "The rabbis of the Talmud have always believed there is no question that's more important," said Berg, the senior rabbi at The Temple in Atlanta, "because it ultimately gets to honesty and faithfulness and integri ...
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Capitalism: A Love-Hate Relationship
Date: 10/09/2009
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Not in My Backyard--but Perhaps the Woods Behind It ?
Date: 09/30/2009
My sense of justice vs legal ethics goes a bit askew when it comes to sex offenders. On the one hand, I believe in crime and punishment as well as rehabilitation; on the other hand, I don't know many other crimes that are so offensive to the soul. In Georgia, sex offenders were pushed literally the edges of society, sent to an unsupervised and unofficial camp colony in the woods because of th ...
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Religious Life Won't Be the Same After Downturn
Date: 09/28/2009
NEW YORK - Organized religion was already in trouble before the fall of 2008. Denominations were stagnating or shrinking, and congregations across faith groups were fretting about their finances. The Great Recession made things worse. It's further drained the financial resources of many congregations, seminaries and religious day schools. Some congregations have disappeared and schools have been ...
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