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...area of focus is modern German intellectual history, and he has written on both German and Jewish thought...
Murciano-Goroff also attended the remembrance service, which drew around 900 people to honor survivors of the tragedy and hear remarks from leaders of local and national Jewish organizations...
...even the religious ones, don’t really think about God), but for the sense of community, of home away from home. I go because when I say the blessing over the challah and eat the chicken soup, I feel connected, not to the divine, but to my Jewish peers. When I kibbutz with friends I haven’t seen all week and when I—like so many others—scan the dining room for a future spouse, I feel special—not as an individual, but as part of something greater than myself...
...When Kumin reached the end of high school, the admissions committee at her first-choice college, Wellesley, cared little about her personal relationship with Christ. At the time, Wellesley “had a very stringent Jewish quota,” Kumin recalled—and in Wellesley’s eyes, however fond she may have been of Jesus, Maxine Winokur was still a Jew. She was rejected...
Today is Yom Hashoah, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day. Never again, today we shall say, never again. But unless we find a solution, perhaps we ought to say: again and again, and again...