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Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, the co-chair of Overall Academic Experience, said the University-wide committee’s decision to make way for a J-term was not intended to force the College to institute...
...There will be a strong recommendation to expand the program,” says Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay Harris, who is also co-chair of the curricular review’s Working Group on Students’ Overall Academic Experience. “There’s a very broad consensus that it’s a good thing for freshmen to have small-group experiences of some kind, whether freshman seminars or something else...
...served up, in her words, the "Polack and the Jew" on a platter for a D.A. eager to make an example of somebody--anybody--for the corporate greed of the late '90s. (Never mind that there was no testimony about Kozlowski's roots or that Swartz is even Jewish.) That was the first indication that the soon-to-be-infamous Juror No. 4, Ruth Jordan, wasn't going to make our job any easier. Jordan, a law-school grad and former teacher, seemed to be at war with herself. Whenever she reached the precipice of a guilty vote...
...existed, God has (or the gods have) always been defined by otherness. But for just as long, humans have feared that the alienation was increasing. "Why, O Lord, do You stand aloof?" cried the Psalmist, eventually concluding that the reason was human disobedience and sin. By Jesus' time, Jewish temple ritual included regular sin sacrifices freighted with hopes for reconciliation, or atonement, with God. (The word's original English meaning of unity is evident in its three syllables: at-one-ment.) By around A.D. 57, when the Apostle Paul wrote the New Testament book Romans, it was clear that Christians...
...book Hebrews, for instance, directly appropriates the Jewish sacrificial metaphor, except this time, Jesus is both priest and sacrifice, spilling, "not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption." The Gospel of Mark favors Roman legal language for the freeing of slaves: "the Son of Man came ... to give his life as a ransom for many." The First Epistle of Peter, meanwhile, takes a radically different tack, posing Jesus' trials as occasion for imitation: "because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps." And Paul...