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...having any rabbis next year due to the poor economic climate. The question of a continued rabbinical presence on campus was the first issue brought up in the discussion. Religious life is “a very important part of my Hillel experience,” said Avishai D. Don ’12. “I don’t know how exactly the minyanim [set of Jewish prayer groups] is going to be affected by the financial crisis.” Hillel Associate Director Michael Simon assured students during the meeting that there would definitely...
...Avishai D. Don ’12, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Matthews Hall...
Creator and webmaster Avishai Shraga also debuted the site at Stanford, New York University and the University of California at San Diego...
...become the most urgent intellectual challenge of our time. Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism (Atlantic Books; 165 pages) is the latest attempt to solve the puzzle of Islamic rage - and it is possibly the most provocative. Its authors, Ian Buruma, a respected commentator on Asian affairs, and Avishai Margalit, a professor of philosophy at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, assert that the ideas inspiring bin Laden and his fellow terrorists originally sprang from the West. The book is a belated follow-up to Orientalism, the classic 1978 work by Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said, which described how Europeans have...
...Laden has become the most urgent intellectual challenge of our time. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies is the latest attempt to solve the puzzle of Islamic rage-and it is possibly the most provocative. Its authors, Ian Buruma, a respected commentator on Asian affairs, and Avishai Margalit, a professor of philosophy at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, assert that the ideas inspiring bin Laden and his fellow terrorists originally sprang from the West...