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2007 April-May

A Moment With Michael Oren

By Nonna Gorilovskaya 21:57 06 July in 2007 April-May, Israel, Politics

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Author of Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present Since the days of the Barbary pirates, the Middle East has loomed large in America’s imagination and foreign policy. In Power, Faith and Fantasy, historian Michael Oren traces America’s involvement in...

Nathan Guttman: Between Iraq and a Hard Place

By Nathan Guttman 18:04 27 March in 2007 April-May, Issues, Politics

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Why is America’s strongest faith-based bloc that opposes the war—the Jewish community—sitting this conflict out? From the front lines of the civil-rights movement through the Vietnam War protests and up to the campaign to stop genocide in Darfur, American Jews have never been shy about forming...

Einstein and His God

By Mandy Katz 18:04 13 March in 2007 April-May, Arts & Culture

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At home in Berlin in April 1929, Albert Einstein received an urgent telegram from Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of New York: “Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid 50 words.” Boston Archbishop William Henry Cardinal O’Connell had derided Einstein’s famous relativity theories as “befogged...

Was Einstein a Jewish Saint?

By Mandy Katz 18:01 13 March in 2007 April-May, Issues

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As usual, Albert Einstein hadn’t dressed for the occasion. Most of the 40 or so young men waiting for him that Friday night in January at Princeton’s Murray-Dodge Hall sported the “college man’s” uniform of 1947—their best tweed sport coats and shined loafers. But their guest...

2007 April-May

A Moment With Michael Oren

Nathan Guttman: Between Iraq and a Hard Place

Einstein and His God

Was Einstein a Jewish Saint?

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