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EST 1917

Sometimes it seems as though everyone’s on Twitter. Biker Lance Armstrong. Singer Katy Perry. Actor William Shatner. Recently, we were startled to see the addition of another “celebrity” into this strange mix: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. For one thing, Heschel isn’t known to be succinct. He’s more renowned for 500-page books about the relationship with the Divine than 140-character tweets. For […]

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Do Jews speak a different language than other people? The comedy duo Jake and Amir are a latter-day Abbot and Costello, or perhaps the Three Stooges split between two people. (Amir is also a proud product of the Jewish day school system, although not a product of Jewish summer camps, which he rants about in […]

“While you’re talking, you’re not learning anything,” Richard Feynman used to say. Ironically, Feynman used to talk a lot. A physicist, philosopher, teacher and one of the inventors of the atomic bomb, Feynman was one of the 20th century’s greatest minds. He grew up in Queens, NY, born to Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants whom he described as “avowed atheists.” […]

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