Chicago Censors Talmud
If Graydon Snyder only knew that he would be convicted of sexual harassment for teaching the Talmud, he might have kept his mouth shut.
But Mr. Snyder, a Bible professor at the United Church of Christ's Chicago Theological Seminary, could not have foreseen the dangers that lurk in talmudic discourse, and he now stands at the center of perhaps the most bizarre and troubling political-correctness case yet.
In a graduate-level Gospels class two years ago, Mr. Snyder told a story from the Talmud's Baba Kama tractate, a book that covers tort law. Mr. Snyder says the story, which contains one of the Talmud's more famous and challenging hypotheticals, helps his students understand the differences between Jewish and Christian notions of sin.
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Rangel Offers Olive Branch to ADL's Foxman
NEW YORK -- Charles Rangel, the Harlem congressman whose fence-sitting in the Rev. Louis Farrakhan imbroglio upset many in the Jewish community -- including some of his backers -- is expressing regret for making statements critical of the Anti-Defamation League.
Mr. Rangel had a public falling out with Abraham Foxman, the national director of the ADL, after the ADL set off a national controversy by printing in a New York Times advertisement vitriolic anti-Jewish remarks made by a Nation of Islam spokesman, Khalid Abdul Muhammad. Mr. Rangel publicly excoriated the Jewish group and accused Mr. Foxman of placing the advertisement to scare up donations. Mr. Rangel could not be reached for comment this week; Mr. Foxman said in an interview only that "it takes a big man to accept that he may have made a mistake and then to move forward from there."
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