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...into that,” Dara Horn ’99 explained to the crowd at Wordsworth Books two Thursdays ago. Horn, a former literature concentrator, current GSAS student and head teaching fellow for last year’s core “Literature and Arts A48: The Modern Jewish Experience,” recently published In the Image, a novel she wrote while studying for a year in Cambridge...
...scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Horn is naturally interested in Jewish languages. She explains that even modern secular texts in these languages cannot elude their Biblical associations. In her novel, Horn strives to endow her English prose with this same Biblical force, merging the secular and religious in the story of a modern Job whose life’s obsession—taking snapshots of ancient religious sites—is destroyed during a hurricane...
Council member Jay M. Harris, who is the Wolfson professor of Jewish studies, said the proposed changes in the awarding of the scholarships are not “really a momentous thing...
...only Israelis and not Jews. The divestment petition, which singles out Israel for criticism in the face of the reality that its human rights record is far better than that of any other nation in the region, is anti-Semitic in effect because it demonizes and delegitimates the only Jewish nation for sins committed far more frequently and grievously by others. As Thomas Friedman of the New York Times has written: “criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction—out of all proportion...
There's a jokey axiom in Hollywood: Show business is a homophobic, anti-Semitic industry dominated by homosexuals and Jews. In reality, Sandler is widely admired within the entertainment community for proudly proclaiming his Jewish heritage. And it's one reason that audiences of all stripes like him: Adam Sandler seems authentic; he's not hiding anything. His hilarious Chanukah Song, which he introduced on Saturday Night Live, is considered a holiday classic...