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Politics/LawDecember 5, 2011

Liberals Agree, Israel is Greatest Thing Since Sliced Challah

By Shalom Goldman

Jeffrey Goldberg’s review of a new book by fellow “liberal” Gershom Gorenberg perpetuates the mythology that if Israel seems impure there must be an explanation.

CultureJuly 15, 2010

Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

As scholars have been reminding us for a very long time by now, private reading and the linear thinking valued by many as essential for deep, contemplative thought, did not feature much in the lives of the people who pretty much brought us the contemplative tradition.

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