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When Kugel, director of the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies and a member of the Harvard Divinity School faculty, first started teaching “Bible” about 20 years ago, the number of students enrolled totaled about 50, he said...
...first time since the spring of 1999, Starr Professor of Classical, Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature James L. Kugel is offering Literature and Arts C-37: “The Bible and Its Interpreters...
...luck, they believe, that during the week of his captivity, the television news featured images that would have infuriated his captors: shackled and blindfolded prisoners at Guant?namo Bay, and Israeli tanks smashing down Palestinian homes. Nor did it help Pearl that a Pakistani newspaper reported that he was Jewish. On top of that, the Pakistani authorities had just begun rounding up Islamic radicals across the country. "The international events were sufficient for any Islamic militant to become emotional," one investigator says. Pearl may also have enraged his jailers by trying to crawl out of a ventilator hole in the bathroom...
Nowhere more than in Israel does the old anarchist aphorism hold true: No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in. That's because the Jewish State's proportional-representation democracy awards a parliamentary seat to any party able to muster a measly 1.5 percent of the popular vote, and that combined with the increasing "tribalization" of its electorate has made it an iron rule of Israeli politics that no party ever wins a simple majority. Instead, the leader of the party that wins the most seats then faces weeks of horse-trading with a plethora of small...
...seats, as against Labor's 19. That will leave him forced to choose between a range of coalition options. A "National Unity" government comprising the opposite ideological poles of the dovish Labor Party and the hawkish Likud has traditionally been a temporary solution to immediate crises confronting the embattled Jewish State, and the endemic security crisis in the West Bank and Gaza has made it, increasingly, the default setting of Israeli politics. Sharon headed up a unity government until Labor bolted in search of an independent identity shortly before the latest poll, and he has made clear that a National...