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January 5, 2006
Angels in America
This week\’s cover story celebrates not make-believe angels, but real live ones.
Intense Me’ah Gets High Marks
Me\’ah, which began in 1994 with 50 students in greater Boston, is also now being offered in Baltimore, Cleveland, Rhode Island, Florida, New Jersey and New York.
Spectator – Musical Mystery of Letters
Guitarist and composer Adam Del Monte has the musical sophistication and spiritual depth to explore Jewish mysticism beyond the trendy or superficial.
A Line Drive Down Jewish History
In an interview, Jeffrey Gurock, a New York City-area resident, says that this is a book he has been thinking about for almost his entire adult life and spent the last five years working on. His passion for the subject is clear.
Television – Bruce Feiler’s Biblical Road Trip
The three-part \”Walking the Bible With Bruce Feiler\” follows the recent documentary trend of sending a charismatic host to a series of dangerous or hard-to-get-to places. Accompanied on occasion by archaeologists, scholars, Egyptologists, and theologians, Feiler tracks his way through places in the Middle East where the biblical stories of Genesis and Exodus are assumed to have occurred.
A Big Impression
My senior students suffer from short-term memory loss, a condition less severe than Alzheimer\’s and dementia but nonetheless frightening. They can recall exact moments from decades past, but in the present, from one moment to the next, many don\’t remember who or where they are. Sort of like elected officials.
IRS Errs on Endorsing Candidate Charge
I bring this matter to your attention in the wake of an investigation begun by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) against All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena and its emeritus pastor, the Rev. George Regas. The IRS began its query subsequent to a sermon the Rev. Regas delivered two days before the 2004 presidential election.
Forgotten Have Place in World to Come
In my academic life, I\’m a scholar of Yiddish literature. As I searched for more information about the actual stolen painting, I came across a series of Chagall drawings that had been displayed at the same exhibit, illustrations for a children\’s book by Der Nister — one of my favorite Yiddish writers, who, despite his genius, is almost completely unknown to general readers.
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