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I ran into an Irishman in a Barcelona hair salon in February, and when I told him of my plan to visit his country for St. Patrick’s Day, he replied: “Oh, St. Patrick’s Day is a U.S. holiday — an Irish-American thing, really.” Well, I felt like a rube. But then I remembered how, years […]

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Diane Sharon recently taught a course on ancient Egypt at Temple Emanu-El’s Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning. A professor at the Academy for Jewish Religion, Sharon’s curriculum spanned the Patriarch Abraham’s original sojourn in Egypt and the subsequent “ambivalent, and often tempestuous relationship between the Hebrews and the Land of Egypt.” The Jewish Week […]

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