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      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
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Naomi Seidman

Naomi Seidman is Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of translation, University of Chicago, 2006.

Guest BloggersOctober 4, 2010

Dear Pew, What of Jewish Agnostics?

By Naomi Seidman

Which is more true, that I’m Jewish or that I’m an atheist/agnostic?

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Archive**November 10, 2009

Sex, the Body, the World: It’s R. Crumb’s Bible Now

By Naomi Seidman

Among the most surprising things about underground comics master R. Crumb’s new illustration of the first book of the Hebrew Bible is not only how straight he plays the visual translation, but also the affinity between his own sensibility and the fleshly materiality of Genesis.

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Culture, Politics/LawJune 15, 2009

Selective Sympathy and the Mumbai Chabad House

By Naomi Seidman

Are the deaths of “our” people more important to us? What were two Brooklyn Jews doing in India anyway? Our columnist reflects on the selective sympathies of Westerners—of Jews in particular—upon hearing the news of the murder of an Orthodox rabbi and his wife during this Indian national tragedy.

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(A)theologiesMay 8, 2009

Good Friday and Purim: Non-Harmonic Convergences

By Naomi Seidman

Collision on the interfaith highway…

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