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1. THE CHURCH AND THE HELICOPTER

A year after graduating college, I worked downtown in the immense shadows of the World Trade Center, and as part of my freewheeling, four-hour daily lunch break I would eat and drink my way past these two giants, up Broadway, down Fulton Street and over to the Strand Book Annex.

Dr. David Hartman’s essay in “I am Jewish”

Dr. David Hartman was one of the most respected Jewish theologians in the world. He was the founder and director of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, a frequent lecturer in the United States, and author of several widely acclaimed books, including two winners of the National Jewish Book Award.

Excerpt: ‘Proust Was a Neuroscientist’

For Walt Whitman, the Civil War was about the body. The crime of the Confederacy, Whitman believed, was treating blacks as nothing but flesh, selling them and buying them like pieces of meat. Whitman\’s revelation, which he had for the first time at a New Orleans slave auction, was that body and mind are inseparable. To whip a man\’s body was to whip a man\’s soul.

Our Favorite Jerry Goldsmith Story

Film composer Jerry Goldsmith, died July 21, age 75. The following is excerpted from a 1997 interview with The Jewish Journal.

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