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...moral design of nature is as bungled as its engineering design. What twisted sadist would have invented a parasite that blinds millions of people or a gene that covers babies with excruciating blisters? To adapt a Yiddish expression about God: If an intelligent designer lived on Earth, people would break his windows...
...Professor Martin will have done an excellent job of bringing diversity to the campus if, during the course of her tenure, there will appear as many conservative thinkers in the Government Department and other departments as there currently are female professors on campus,” Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse wrote in an e-mail...
...many modernized Jews. Hasidic men, bearded, black-hatted and clad in severe dark suits, take to their streets to dance in spiritual celebration on joyous holy days. The strictly observant women dress to conceal their elbows and knees and cover their shorn hair with wigs. Members of tightly knit, Yiddish-speaking Hasidic communities, under the virtually absolute sway of a grand rabbi, preserve a way of life that began long ago in Eastern Europe...
Sheina is less imbued with Yiddish culture than most Lubavitcher women. Nonetheless, she voluntarily leads a highly regulated life prescribed by Jewish custom and law. "I'm here for a purpose," she says. "To see the beauty and holiness in everyday things. The key is in the Torah, and the way to get there has been shown us in a practical way by the mitzvot," the 613 commandments that define traditional Jewish practice. In Lubavitcher thinking, all matter is filled with holiness, and even minor deeds help prepare for the coming of the Messiah...
...What I understand by gender equality is that all persons should be treated equally,” Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse wrote in an October e-mail. “[This] argues not for equal opportunity but for equal outcome...