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Posted in History on March 12th, 2010 
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The cool thing about Google Maps isn’t that it gives us a chance to browse a map of pretty much anywhere the world, from downtown Jerusalem to the cool museum down the street from MJL that I’ve never been to.
True to form, the first (and, for a while, only) people to take advantage of […]
Posted in Practices, History, Beliefs on March 12th, 2010 No Comments »
“Show respect to an old man who has forgotten his learning through no fault of his own, for we have learned that the fragments of the old tablets [of the Ten Commandments which Moses shattered] were kept alongside the new tablets in the Ark of the Covenant.”
–Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 8b
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Posted in History on March 9th, 2010 No Comments »
Dara Horn has never been a writer who shies away from strong imagery. Her first novel, In the Image, features a catatonic flood that wrecks a New Jersey town. In The World to Come, an antisocial bachelor at a Jewish singles event in a museum mopes in a corner and inadvertently steals a framed Chagall […]
Posted in History on March 4th, 2010 No Comments »
The Oscars are coming up on Sunday. I believe I’ve seen maybe three movies this year. And lucky for me, two of them are nominated for Best Picture. And no, I didn’t see Avatar. So you can decide for yourself what I saw.
Two of the Best Picture nominees, A Serious Man and Inglourious Basterds have […]
Posted in History on February 26th, 2010 No Comments »
The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.
–John F. Kennedy
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Posted in History, Texts on February 24th, 2010 No Comments »
In the last post, David Rosenberg, whose new books are A Literary Bible: An Original Translation and An Educated Man: A Dual Biography of Moses and Jesus, wrote about writing about writers. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.
We were in the South Miami Barnes & Noble the other […]
Posted in History, Texts on February 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
David Rosenberg’s latest books are A Literary Bible: An Original Translation and An Educated Man: A Dual Biography of Moses and Jesus. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.
My two new books are both about Jewish writers in times when we like to pretend there were no Jewish writers—just […]
Posted in History, Israel on February 19th, 2010 No Comments »
Without moral and intellectual independence, there can be no national independence.
–David Ben Gurion
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Posted in History, Life on February 12th, 2010 No Comments »
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.–Anne Frank
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Posted in History on February 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Have you heard about the mumps outbreak in the ultra-Orthodox community? The New York Times can fill you in on all the details, but here is a very quick recap. There was an outbreak of the disease in Brooklyn and other religious areas (Rockland County, and as far as Quebec) and the source is from […]
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