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...eminently friendly and disarming Paretzky spent her first fall exploring, taking Core classes as she searched for a concentration and joining several student groups, including the Mission Hill After School Program and the Jewish a cappella group Mizmor Shir...
...Mizmor Shir, a Jewish a cappella music group affiliated with Harvard Hillel, two of the 12 members aren’t themselves Jewish...
...Podolsky may or may not have known, I too am Jewish and sang in the Jewish a cappella group Mizmor Shir. It is thus with a more personal touch that I find his parallel to be misinformed and unhelpful. Yiddish is undoubtedly recognized as an official language, spoken primarily by Jews for centuries. To assert that Ebonics is as widely accepted as an official language among African-Americans is a leap that one should be wary to make, regardless of what Vaux has to say in defense of its validity. The debate over Ebonics remains decidedly that?...
...Jewish. Suppose I were sitting in the popular Core class Social Analysis 34, “Knowledge of Language,” and the Jewish a cappella group Mizmor Shir gave a performance before class, as singing groups sometimes do. Suppose that, right afterwards, Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux said that Mizmor Shir’s performance made a nice segue into a discussion of the vocabulary of Yiddish. Would I have any pretext, any justification, any reason, to accost Vaux after class and demand an apology...
...says. "I was whispering the prayer before dying from the Koran." Other women made similar claims. A villager produces his daughter Maba, 7, to act out how she says she was bound. "If they touch our women again we must ask ourselves why are we alive," says Shir Mohammed Stad. "We will have no choice but to fight back...