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...play too. So what is Gaga? Michael I. Levin-Gesundheit ’08, one of the organizers of the event, explains. “It’s a form of dodgeball thought to have originated in Israel, usually played in a sandy pit at a lot of Jewish Community Center camps.” Due to the lack of a pit at the Harvard Hillel, where the game was held, students instead lined up six folding tables on their sides to form a make-shift pit. “With each bounce, everyone says the word ga?...
...there has been a discussion about the need to make the offerings in Islamic studies stronger. Although the response statement does recognize the common ground with Judaism as an Abrahamic faith, neither document mentions other faiths such as Buddhism or Hinduism. As of last night, only one professor of Jewish studies had written on this dialogue’s impact to Judaism, according to The Web site for “A Common Word.” “There is a place for broader interfaith dialogue, but there is also a place for bilateral conciliation...
...Speaking to a group of Jewish Republicans on October 16, Giuliani made the case that he alone could put states in play that Democrats have long taken for granted...
...committee once considered a “hard transition” that would bring all students under Gen Ed requirements starting as soon as September 2009, it has since decided that current sophomores, juniors, and seniors will graduate under the Core, according to Harris, the Wolfson professor of Jewish studies and chair of the Gen Ed implementation committee. During the transition, Harris said, the College will offer courses that count for Core credit and for Gen Ed credit—and some courses may count for both. The committee is currently finalizing the timing of the switchover...
...flee from the lofty abstractions of philosophers to the microcosm of the contingent because they are forsaking the universal, but rather because they believe the contingent is the only true portal into the universal. They believe that the one humdrum Dublin day in the life of a middle-aged, Jewish cuckold who defecates, masturbates, feeds animals, attends a funeral, remembers his dead son, and kisses the ass of his adulterous wife can speak not just to one perverse character’s experience but to the experience of humanity as a whole, across all time and nationality...