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...past five years, but to leave it at that would beckon, as Rudenstine wrote in his Feb. 11 letter, "complacency or self-satisfaction." The President concluded his letter with the following inspiring statement: "Continued progress will depend on...ensuring that promising women scholars receive careful attention in the context of individual searches; sustaining a climate that is supportive of women and attentive to their concerns, both in reality and in perception; creating organizational structures, processes and incentives conducive to identifying and appointing outstanding tenured women; broadening and reinforcing the pathways for women to pursue and sustain academic careers; sharing information...
While entertaining the audience with his anecdotal speaking style and humorous comparisons between his own field and economics, Hodgkinson provided a context for the panel discussion...
...reached 52%. A last forlorn fantasy--that all those Gentile spouses would eventually become Jews--was punctured by a meager 9% conversion rate. In fact, 54% of the children in all Jewish households are not being raised as Jews. The result, often feared but never quite in this context: "Saving an unforeseen reversal of current trends, it appears...that the history of the Jews as we have known it and them is probably approaching...
...when the character Maude made the decision to have an abortion, I might have been convinced--had I been alive--that it was an important cultural moment. In the context of a nation torn by Roe v. Wade, a case could be made that television was tackling something truly controversial. In 1997, the outing of Ellen has no larger meaning...
...There are scholars who want to place the novels they're studying in a historical context. Some people use them because they haven't read the books but others of us use them to solidify our understanding of a time period or genre," she said...