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...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...
...Jewish student who attended elite Northeastern schools in the heyday of the Protestant Establishment, Slavitt faced prejudice growing up. When he applied for admission to Choate, a school representative calmly informed his parents that the year’s “Hebrew quota” had already been reached. Slavitt, a middle-schooler at the time, was in the room...
...department is based on a 60-year-old theory which Peter Machinist—the Hancock professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages, who is NELC’s acting director of undergraduate studies and served in that position for five years in the mid-1990s—calls “reverse-ethnocentricity—studying the world from where you stand.” In Western terms, NELC’s structure is tantamount to putting what we know now as Romance Languages, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, History and Literature, Germanic Languages and History of Art and Architecture...
Rabbi David Ellenson, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, said in a literary, humorous and at times quite personal discussion that the Jewish concepts of dignity and equality that stem from the creation of man in God’s image trump any other specific biblical mandates against same-sex marriage...
...three Indians in each year. So naturally we took part in the activities of the dominant populations. My particular crowd happened to be mostly Jewish—my attendance at more than my share of bar and bat mitzvahs, deep love of Challah and inadvertently acquired knowledge of Hebrew prayer tunes eventually earned me the title of “honorary Jew.” I also sang in an Episcopalian church choir for ten years, a fact made even stranger by the fact that I was, officially, a temple-going Hindu girl...