By any standards it was a shocking episode. Jacob had settled on the outskirts of the town of Shechem, ruled by Hamor. Dina, Jacob’s daughter, goes out to see the town. Shechem, Hamor’s son, sees her,...
11.30.2023 Timesofisrael.comOpinion John R. Wiens In a 1978 book, The Life of the Mind , Hannah Arendt advances the proposition that thinking is a moral activity. In part, she does so by lamenting the absence of thought prevalen...
11.30.2023 Winnipegfreepress.comI am a devotee at a South Indian temple a few miles south of Rochester, New York . It’s caste and gender neutral, at least in theory, and its murti, which Indians are unembarrassed to call idols, are ...
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