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Living Well
What Do We Celebrate on Lag B’Omer and Why Is this Lag B’Omer Different?
Michael Laitman
May 6, 2015
Tribute outshines controversy at UCLA Heschel conference
Jared Sichel
May 5, 2015
During the two weeks leading up to a major conference at UCLA to honor the late rabbi and civil rights leader Abraham Joshua Heschel, controversy swirled around one of the event’s two keynote speakers — Cornel West — an outspoken academic who severely criticized Israel during its war last summer with Hamas.
At the May 3-4 conference titled “Moral Grandeur & Spiritual Audacity” however, celebration of Heschel took precedence over the dispute of the preceding weeks.
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