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expressed through his book divulge
challenges to his ethics that put him at
odds with people in power. Protecting
sources, for instance, brought problems
with Congress. Following his instincts,
at other times, inspired conflicts with
bosses and on occasion resulted in
finding new employment.
Although Schorr had intended to
present only a professional memoir, he
soon decided that he owed his readers
more personal information. He want-
ed to give a real sense of what influ-
enced the way he practiced journalism.
Telling about his Jewish background
— along with how that once prevented
him from getting a job at the New York
Times
is significant in capturing the
directions his work would take.
"Being able to use my knowledge of
the past successfully is probably one of
the nicest things that's happened to
me," Schorr says about his book.
"I hope [people] will learn that the
important events in the world have a
history and that to know what today
means involves knowing what hap-
pened before."
— Suzanne Chessler

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THELORDISMYSHEPHERD.COM:
SEEKING GOD IN CYBERSPACE
By Joshua Hammerman
(Simcha Press; 261 pp.; $10.95)

hile others are up late at
night, surfing the
Internet for low-priced
airline tickets or foreign
weather reports, Rabbi Joshua
Hammerman is probably awake too
and online. But he's looking for God.
"There is an overwhelming amount
of holiness on the Web," he writes. In
this book, he creates a narrative that
alternates between analytical and expe-
riential chapters.
In the latter, he recounts three
online spiritual journeys, the first to
sacred places like Jerusalem, Mecca,
Meenakshi Temple in southern India,
Chartres and Kosovo. In the other
journeys, he plots a route to explore
the nature of good and evil, and then
searches for holiness in humanity.
All of his travel involves clicking from
one Web site to the next, pausing and
delving deeper when he finds something
of interest. He suggests that readers might
want to be online as they read these chap-
ters in order to follow his route.
For Rabbi Hammerman, spiritual
leader of Temple Beth El in Stamford,
Conn., the Internet seems to be a way
to engage in the very Jewish enterprise
of asking questions, whether in a med-
itative way as he visits sites, or in

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