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This weekend, the Jewish community at Harvard celebrated the union of Sufrin and Simon, the associate director of Hillel...
Portnoy (one always wants to type Porn-toy) was born, like Roth, in 1933; Marcus Messner, the hero of Indignation, is a year older. Like Portnoy, Marcus comes from a smotheringly protective Jewish family in Newark, N.J. ("You are a boy with a magnificent future ahead of you," Marcus' father tells him. "How do I know you're not going to places where you can get yourself killed?") Like Portnoy, Marcus escapes to college in Ohio, where he is baffled and inflamed by the attentions of a sexually unfettered shiksa. Unlike Portnoy, Indignation is a weird, flawed little book, full...
Like any other Holy Land story, it's a potent mix of religion and politics. As Burleigh writes, "Where historians seek clues to the puzzle of the ancient worlds, evangelical Christians seek proof of the literal interpretation of the Bible and nationalist Israelis want evidence of ancient Jewish inhabitation...
According to Dershowitz, there are three root causes of this anti-Israeli sentiment: Israel is a Jewish state; Israel is an ally of the US, and suffers from “veiled anti-Americanism”; and Israel does not produce oil, making the state useless...
...that the Psalms - in many ways the Western model for all personal prayer - are full of such special pleading. And in the Lord's prayer, Jesus doesn't forget to include "give us this day our daily bread." Daniel Nevins, dean of the rabbinical school at New York's Jewish Theological Seminary, also recognizes the legitimacy of the "help me" prayer, noting that the third of four prayers that religious Jews are expected to recite after meals asks God to "grant us relief from all our troubles. May we never find ourselves in need of gifts or loans from flesh...