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Edith Windsor, gay rights activist, dies at 88; Israeli court strikes down army exemptions for yeshiva students; Doc. about Polish-Jewish filmmaker wins Venice award; German court drops case against Auschwitz medic. More…

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Though it broke my heart, I had to stop visiting my grandfather. His body was the crumpled shell of the man I adored, his eyes somewhere far away. Knowing he would no longer recognize me, my grandmother implored me not to come with her to see him in the nursing home, to cling to my […]

We confuse knowledge with wisdom. Knowledge derives from demonstrable facts: the facts of science, for example, which no serious and informed person can reasonably reject. We may debate alternative interpretations, but the debate will be demonstrably knowledgeable. Some knowledge arrives less scientifically: how we know someone loves us, or the way a brilliant portrait catches […]

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