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Marching with our Words: Standing up against Hate on Yom Kippur
After the 1965 Civil Rights March in Selma, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel—featured in the front row of marchers in the iconic photo---commented “I felt like my legs were praying.”Heschel’s legacy has...
View ArticleHarry Potter and the Campus Chaplain
Over a hundred religion professors held forth at last week’s American Academy of Religion meeting, some to half empty rooms.Passing up theology, history and politics, I squeezed into the back row to...
View ArticleDecember Dilemmas
This year, the last flickering candles of Hanukkah were long extinguished before Christmas Eve, so the mash up of celebrations proved less intense than some years. Nevertheless, the entire month of...
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