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...Kings starts in an agricultural town in southern California and works its characters East. Freddie, the slightly dreamy younger of two brothers whose mother has died, sells his father's used liquor bottles to fund his escapes to the movies. It may surprise some readers to discover Freddie is Jewish when plans for his Bar Mitzvah are mentioned: Unlike more familiar Depression-era stories of being Jewish in America, where characters struggle with assimilation in an urban ghetto, Kings tells a less common story. Freddie seems totally integrated into his small town, his Jewish identity becoming even less important when...
After a few thousand years, the jury is still out. As Jews are midway through observing the holiday of Passover, famed defense attorney and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz faced off against Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris in a mock trial of Pharaoh last night. The two men debated Pharaoh’s guilt on charges of persecuting and enslaving the Jews and attempted genocide but neither side won. Harris, who teaches Moral Reasoning 54, “‘If There Is No God, Then All Is Permitted,’: Theism...
...more modern and progressive institution, the University shed its Christian roots and began admitting a wide range of religious backgrounds. Today, the University is rolling in religious diversity. Dharma, the campus Hindu organization, is booming: the Harvard Islamic Society recently organized an entire week of Islam awareness, and campus Jewish students flock to Hillel nightly. Ironically, in this flurry of religious progressivism at Harvard, it is Christianity that has been pushed to the wayside. The religion is seen as backward, nonintellectual, and extreme. No one will say that directly in public space—it is not appropriate?...
...always blended the sacred world of faith with the profane arena of politics. Its archconservative commentators love to slag off the "evils" of the free market and the perils of joining Europe. But this month they acquired an opponent tough for them to dismiss. After one pundit declared that Jewish groups were "humiliating Poland internationally by demanding money" for property expropriated during World War II and likened their efforts to a "holocaust industry," the Vatican itself decided this was the last straw. It instructed the Polish Catholic church to prevent its station from mixing prayer and politics. The trouble...
Walt and Mearsheimer published a paper on the Kennedy School’s website last month arguing that “the Israel Lobby”—a loose coalition of politicians, journalists, think-tank scholars, and Jewish leaders—holds an excessive influence on U.S. foreign policy...