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Word: michlalah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2008-2008
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...couple of days later, I called Rabbi Dr. Chaim Pollock, Dean of Foreign Students at the Michlalah Jerusalem College, whom I had read had also used the Harry Potter analogy. He seemed somewhat embarrassed that I was asking him about the topic. "Harry Potter is fiction," he said. He had never suggested that it spoke to the Jewish experience specifically. He had just defended its emphasis on good and evil back when a lot of religious leaders were denouncing the books as occult. "The following, I think I can tell you," he said, warming slightly to the topic. "Rowling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Didn't Know Harry Potter Was Jewish? | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

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