Word: diasporas
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...support disengagement of being erev rav, a biblical term that refers to people from other nations who joined the Israelites in their exodus from Egypt. Some Talmudic rabbis blame all the bad events in Jewish history--from the Golden Calf to the destruction of the Temple and the Diaspora--on the traces of those non-Israelites in Jewish society. Increasingly, the fringe of religious extremists, bound to refrain from killing Jews, justify the possibility of political violence by arguing that police and soldiers evacuating Jews from their land would be erev rav, enemies within who deserve to be destroyed...
...into earthly order and in doing so helped ensure their survival. The earliest Christians established a rough institutional structure that allowed them to transmit their ideas within a generation of Christ's death, and as a result succeeded in living through the Roman persecution; the Jews of the Diaspora moved as a cultural whole through the nations of Europe, finding niches wherever they could but maintaining their identity and kinship by observing the same rites. "All religions become a bit secular," says Wilson. "In order to survive, you have to organize yourselves into a culture...
...best known for his keen observations and deadpan humor in McCarthy's Bar, a meander through Ireland in which he "never pass[ed] a bar that has your name on it." He followed that book's success with The Road to McCarthy, in which he pursued the Irish diaspora around the world. McCarthy wrote in 2001 of his "childlike pleasure" in seeing his books on shop shelves with those of writers he admired - and of the "thrill" of "moving McCarthy's Bar in front of Bill Bryson before anyone catches you." DIED. JACQUES DERRIDA, 74, French philosopher and intellectual demigod...
...incarceration, disease and disenfranchisement lower the life chances of blacks globally. Instead of disregarding the political thought of Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X as anachronistic or misguided, it might be time to resurrect the Pan-African focus in order to combat the most severe crisis in the African Diaspora since colonialism. We live in a world where those with power and resources are either flagrantly inattentive or maliciously disengaged from this plight because there is no joint intellectual and grassroots pressure. For example, we praise President Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative, but Europeans spend $11 billion...
...without increased resources and new faculty, none of this will be enough to maintain the department’s place at the cutting edge of the academic study of Africa and the African diaspora. The reality remains that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is losing professors of color—of whom there are too few to begin with—instead of gaining them. This trend has to be reversed...