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Rachel Lea Fish, the New York office director of advocacy group the David Project, met with Jewish students in October 2003 to investigate campus life. Several reported problems with professors who used the classroom as a bully pulpit, according to Fish...
After the drama of discovery in the first half, "Suspended in Language" turns into a something of a cloak-and-dagger thriller. When the Nazis occupied Denmark, Bohr remained under virtual house arrest for both his Jewish heritage and his anti-Nazi worldview. He survived this way until 1943 when, days before being taken away, he escaped to England in the bomber hold of an allied aircraft. Eventually he made his way to the top-secret Manhattan Project where his theories were being tested on the making of a nuclear bomb. He soon became a security concern, however, since...
...hold fast to something without all the tidy cause and effect that science finds so necessary. Try parsing things the way geneticists do, and you risk parsing them into dust. "God is not something that can be demonstrated logically or rigorously," says Neil Gillman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. "[The idea of a God gene] goes against all my personal theological convictions." John Polkinghorne, a physicist who is also Canon Theologian at England's Liverpool Cathedral, agrees: "You can't cut [faith] down to the lowest common denominator of genetic survival...
...would be easy for God simply to program us for reverence; it's more meaningful when the door is opened but you've got to walk through on your own--however hard those steps may be for some. "I have never had a Big Bang conversion experience," says the Jewish Theological Seminary's Gillman. "My sense is that slowly and gradually, out of a rich experience of the world, one builds a faith...
...what had once been the Big Five but now looks more like the Big Eight (or Nine, if North Korea's claims are to be believed). Tehran also likes to draw Israel into the equation, accusing the West of a double standard for turning a blind eye to the Jewish State's nuclear capability. Politically and diplomatically, Iran may well feel it has substantial leeway in which to play hardball...