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...round of applicants for the upcoming “Winter Journey.” Because of the short duration of Harvard’s winter recess, the trip was shortened one week, according to Simon. Two out of the 28 participants selected for the program were not Jewish by heritage. Students from other schools, including Barnard College and Wellesley College, were also accepted for the trip. “I am fascinated by the mix of students: students who are involved at Hillel, other students who have a bit of a foot in the door, and some that don?...
...child and spent the 1920s and '30s avoiding work while cadging money from relatives. But he had one distinguishing vice: anti-Semitism. Darquier fed the flames of hate, and after the Nazi occupation, it paid off. By currying favor with Nazis and collaborators alike, he became Commissioner for Jewish Affairs for the Vichy government in May 1942, presiding over a nest of corruption and the deportation of 75,000 Jews to German death camps. He died in 1980, unpunished and unrepentant. Callil lays out Darquier's sordid tale with cool disdain and relentless research. She first encountered his name after...
JACK ABRAMOFF, disgraced Washington lobbyist, talking to a Jewish publication about his role in the Capitol Hill lobby scandal...
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...Faith is commonly known as a trust not based on logic or reason, but on a transpersonal relationship with a higher power. I would beg His Holiness to enunciate the connection between faith and reason in the context of humanity as a whole. Faith is neither Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish nor Buddhist, nor is it a monopoly of any one segment of the human race. It is also appalling that the 9/11 events-a crude, revengeful act by a few semi-educated individuals-has drawn the battle lines of a supposed clash of civilizations, allowing the Pope to deliver...