Oxford Presentation Room Sunday, January 24, 2016, 3 – 4:30 p.m. Dr. Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, Department ...
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As joggers sprinted down nearby Canal Saint Martin, targeted by Islamist assailants last year, Antoine Karegis and his family braved a brisk wind Sunday at the Place de la Rep...
http://www.voanews.com/content/france-remembers-attack-victims/3138738.html
There is a simple reason we never read about jihadi attacks in Japan. There are no Muslims there. No Muslims, no terrorists. This is a significant data point in the public ...
While some historians have argued otherwise, Amin Haj al-Husseini—the grand mufti of Jerusalem prior to World War II—did not influence the Final Solution; he did, however,...
According to an Israeli law passed in 2013, rabbis like ELLI FISCHER who perform halakhic marriages outside the purview of the chief rabbinate can be punished with up to two y...
In 1391, in the wake of a wave of bloody pogroms that swept Spain, Profayt Duran, along with tens of thousands of other Jews, was baptized a Christian. Privately, however, he ...
The right book, it’s said, can change your life. Some books can alter perceptions of the world, or let a reader see life from a perspective they may never have considered be...
Tom Hundley HARSH LAW The Saudi legal system’s penchant for capital punishment—47 executions in a single day last week—has touched off a new round of sectarian viole...
http://pulitzercenter.org/blog/this-week-harsh-law-saudi-arabia
If we want to transcend the dichotomy between regulated diversity and nationalist reaction, Europeans will have to go beyond mere tolerance. Whether or not this takes place...
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/languages-culture/little-europe-320664
In Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, the Israeli academic Yuval Noah Harari attempts to squeeze all of human history into fewer than 500 pages, from a perspective based o...
AGENTS AND EDITORS NEED TO ADVERTISE THEIR INTEREST IN DIVERSITY That's the idea. And this series is an effort to do just that. For now, we're focusing on agents, and today's...
http://www.leewind.org/2016/01/sara-megibow-kt-literary-agent-looking.html
Zest at JW3 is the only kosher restaurant in London we can be proud of. The Sephardi-influenced menu has won critical acclaim and been nominated for not one but two Tatler r...
http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/food/151675/new-faces-new-food-challenges-2016