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...goal by freshman forward Colin Moore into the net. Biega now leads Harvard scoring with five goals on the season. “Some of the forwards had a break in the zone, and we were talking all week about just putting the puck on net and making things happen,” Biega said. “I just stuck my stick in there. That was a prime example of what happens when you put the puck on net. I would give all the credit to [Moore].” Despite the third period tally, Harvard could not match...
...Holocaust movies? Stuart Klawans, the film critic of the Nation, says so in the Jewish magazine Nextbook (but not, oddly, in the Nation), and Ella Taylor tentatively endorses the suggestion this week in the Village Voice. Since these are two of the movies' most thoughtful commentators - who each happen to be Jewish - the proposal deserves consideration...
...Even in the Holocaust, the lesson is "Never Again." But this doesn't mean just never again can genocide be allowed to happen to the Jews, but never again can genocide be allowed to happen to any human being. So, the Holocaust is not just mine; it belongs to all of humanity...
...shut up and help us... When the sages created the national holiday of Tisha Be'av, they made it the single day on which we commemorate all the traumas of our history, from the destruction of the first temple to the Spanish expulsion. These events did not all happen on this exact date; the founders of Jewish civilization confined the memory of the traumas of our history to one day, to allow us the rest of the year to get on with being Jewish, rather than letting sorrow take over our entire existence...
...will Obama respond? As a presidential candidate, he called for a new peace process but was short on the details. "A U.S. Administration has to put its weight behind a process, recognizing that it's not going to happen immediately," he said during a visit to Israel last summer. "That's why I will not wait until a few years into my term or my second term ... to get the process moving." That was meant to be a dig at the Bush Administration, which left it too late to pursue peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Now the Obama Administration...