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Michael Arad discusses his design of the "Reflecting Absence" memorial at Ground Zero: Also check out The Jewish Week’s interview with Arad: Few profiles of Michael Arad, the architect of the Sept. 11 memorial that opens this week, have failed to mention that he is Israeli — the son of a former ambassador, no less. […]

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In a letter to the editor, Ed Koch takes the New York Times to task for taking him to task for turning the New York 9th special election into a send-a-message-to-Obama-on-Israel moment. Marc Tracy at Tablet wonders about the effectiveness of Koch’s strategy — wouldn’t the hawkish pro-Israel community be better served by a Democrat […]

A new video game tells a story so big, violent, raucous, and action-packed that its inspiration could only have come from a Bible-era text. El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron–made for Xbox and Playstation, and created by Tokyo-based Ignition Games–is based on the apocryphal Book of Enoch, purportedly written by the great-grandfather of Noah. In the Bible, Enoch is notable […]

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