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...Yiddish Literature Professor Ruth R. Wisse said that free speech is not Matory’s main concern...
...revealed that some modern scholars consider the relationship between David, a king of Israel, and Jonathan, the son of David’s predecessor Saul, to have been homoerotic. Another question asked contestants to name two popular Jewish dating Web sites. Jdate.com and Frumster.com—from the Yiddish word “frum,” meaning religiously observant—were acceptable answers. Topics also focused on more contemporary aspects of Jewish sex law, such as the Conservative movement’s 2006 decision to allow openly gay rabbis and Jewish rulings on birth control. Because they...
...certain department precludes meaningful study of that field. “For the majority of heritage students, is the concentration really so close to their background?” she says. “For example, there are very few Jewish families in America speaking Hebrew and Yiddish at home today—so I don’t think that Jewish students focusing on Jewish Studies are repeating things that they learned at home...
...probably the premiere prose stylist--the Updike--of his generation, has written a novel about superhero comics; a fantasy tale; a mystery starring an old man who may or may not be Sherlock Holmes; and a pulp crime book set in an alternate time. (That last would be The Yiddish Policemen's Union, about a murder in a what-if world where Alaska becomes a homeland for the Jews, or as they're called there, "the frozen Chosen.") Chabon is still a literary novelist, but he's having a hot, star-crossed flirtation with the "popular" genres. He riffs...
...campus.”“Some people will start a club so that they can put on shows,” Ingber says. But the duo already had the shows—so why not just start a club? Ingber, a former student in Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse’s Literature 166, “The Comic Tradition in Jewish Culture,” tapped into his professor’s enthusiasm when he asked Wisse to advise HSUCS. “Comedy plays an increasingly important role in American culture...