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...heard myself reflect, “Well, if I’m struggling I’m doing something right” and recognized a tone totally contrary to everything I thought I was. To the extent that I had inherited a culture, nowhere in my very hybrid Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern European parentage was there even a hint of the kind of Puritanism that values “sticking it out” above all else. More importantly, the sentiment had never guided my decisions in high school, where I wasn’t ashamed to take steps...
...said is painfully obvious. No one thinks they work just to work, because no one wants to believe they’ve become the embodiment of the Protestant Ethic or the Spirit of Capitalism. But the truth is that even the most laid-back socialist-leaning Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern Europeans among us have internalized some of those principles. Until I gave them up last summer, that...
...committee, led by Jewish studies professor Jay M. Harris, devoted the fall term to defining what kinds of classes would belong in each of the eight categories, according to committee member Alexander N. Chase-Levenson...
...intellectually dishonest for Jewish and Christian marriages to be conducted under the same roof,” TIME Magazine quoted Buttrick as saying...
...Among the most pertinent facts are that the intended wedding was a mixed marriage, a Jewish groom and a Lutheran bride, vehemently opposed by both sets of parents, a proposed marriage which the couple claimed already to have been secretly performed...and a marriage not supported by the rabbi involved,” Crout wrote in an e-mailed statement...