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Sandel outlined several passages from traditional Jewish scripture describing methods for conceiving a male child...
Sandel distributed copies of Jewish texts explaining the method of conceiving a boy rather than a girl at the beginning of his speech, asking audience members to read from them...
...Jewish tradition has long allowed for prayers and acts thought to produce the correct conditions for conceiving a male, he said...
...with his parents, Holocaust survivors, arriving on a ship that glided past the Statue of Liberty. For much of his architectural career, he was a teacher and theorist, not a builder. Then in the late 1980s, while living in Europe, he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum of Berlin. His complex building, a zinc-clad thunderbolt, operates in a way similar to that of Trade Center design. Its very lines acknowledge a calamity--in this case the Holocaust--while offering pathways for a story of survival and continuity. It instantly made him a worldwide design star, with commissions...
Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris said he believes that Kirby’s current proposal would significantly change the nature of shopping. He added that he is not entirely opposed to preregistration, but that it ought to be rethought...