On October 18 we mark two years from the remarkable day when the world waited with great anticipation to see
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A friend recently sent me a YouTube video entitled “Rappers Love Jewish Lawyers.” The mash-up consisted of more 25 rap
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The United States, Russia, China, France and Britain reached a UN Security Council resolution this week to compel Syria to
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Life can be hard, even terrifying for a person who wakes up in the morning and doesn’t know where he
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Claudia Roth Pierpont is the author of the forthcoming Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books, a study of the novelist Philip Roth,
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John Rosengren is the author most recently of a biography, Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes. His other books include Hammerin’ Hank, George Almighty
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“There is no new thing under the sun,” declared King Solomon in Ecclesiastes, the literary, somewhat world-weary distillate of his
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“[Destination weddings] can cut down the costs . . . particularly in an economy when invitees may not be able
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An Excerpt from the novel Congregation Eli Stone steadied the pages of his sermon against the motion of the car
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This March, history was quietly made in a Saturday morning Orthodox minyan (prayer quorum) at Brandeis University. Avi, a 22-year-old
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This week, we read Parashat Ki Teitzei, which concludes with the injunction to destroy and forget the tribe of Amalek,
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Reza Aslan is an Iranian American scholar of religions, whose internationally acclaimed books include No god But God and Beyond
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