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Secular Israelis have failed to locate their own collective identity within the long chain of Jewish history. It is not that they have suddenly ceased to be religiously observant. They were never observant, and that was fine. But even the most fervently secular Israelis used to have a degree of familiarity with classical Jewish literature, for instance, beginning with the Hebrew Bible. Whether or not the words were divinely inspired was unimportant. What mattered was that they were part of a canon of texts that were crucial to the formation of Jewish identity...
...light as a tool for communication without words. Color, movement, rhythm and music make up the vocabulary of these films. Though they range in length from seconds to 30 minutes, the majority of the films last five or six minutes, the perfect length for the unfolding of one chain of thought...
...realize the unparalleled place this University has in our national story. Unfortunately, even the extraordinary becomes mundane when experienced too often, and we begin to forget to take notice of that which has the potential to inspire. So many of us, myself included, have little sense of the majestic chain of history to which we are melded during our studies at Harvard. The time has come to begin the process of remembering...
...floor, then, would have stayed there, never cycling back to the ocean surface and into the atmosphere. As levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide dropped, the earth would have cooled. Sure enough, says Knoll, a major ice age ensued around 600 million years ago - yet another link in a complex chain that connects geological and geochemical events to a momentous advance in biology...
...real thing. Jupiter and 19 classmates, all of them 55 or older, are the first students in an odd if hopeful training program begun jointly this fall by New York City's Department for the Aging and the Riese Organization, a Manhattan-based company that owns 200 chain-restaurant franchises. Designed to help the elderly rejoin today's service-oriented economy--sometimes after years of unemployment or retirement that has left them with skills applicable only to old-fashioned, well-paying jobs--the center was created with $100,000 donated by Riese. "This ought...