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...face the prejudice of exceptionalism: colleagues would refer to him as "a good Muslim," adding that "not all of them are like him." Now an investment banker at the Rothschild banking group in Paris, he finds his current work culture reassuringly cosmopolitan. "Since the Rothschild family is Jewish, they know better than anyone about respect for minorities," he says. "Diversity is a given for them...
...only name that has been mentioned with consistency by students in connection with the college deanship has been that of Jay M. Harris, a professor of Jewish studies and the master of Cabot House, whose credentials include the top spot on the committee that is responsible for implementing the College’s new General Education curriculum...
...story also said that Jay M. Harris, a professor of Jewish studies, would teach four courses in the spring. In fact, he will teach two: one in moral reasoning and one in Jewish studies...
...pick up on the subtle missteps that only a native speaking audience - and the candidates' embarrassed speechwriters - remember. In 1999, one of us watched Vice President Al Gore trip up on the last sentence of a speech to the United Jewish Communities conference because of a mispronounced word of Hebrew, rendering it unintelligible to the audience (Gore recovered admirably, and no speechwriter was fired...
...Gross even has his critics among Polish Jews. At the Warsaw event, Feliks Tych, longtime head of the city's Jewish Historical Institute, criticized Gross for telling only part of the story, selecting the facts that suited his thesis about deeply-ingrained anti-semitism while forgetting to take into account the post-war collapse of state institutions and social control. "Gross is too much of a judge in his book but too little of an analyst," said Tych. "But after his book, it is no longer possible to escape from the question why there were killings of Jews after...