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Archive for April, 2007

I’m a bit late to the Jimmy Carter party. The great firestorm of debate and criticism surrounding former President Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, happened back in December and January. His troubling book and the intense reaction it engendered from the community of Israel supporters, both Jewish and Gentile, has largely subsided. Key [...]

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The story is told of a rabbinical student who, looking to score points with his professor, regurgitated for the teacher an interpretation of Torah that the professor himself had offered some time earlier. When the professor scolded him for offering such an off-base interpretation, the student told him from where he had learned it. [...]

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