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Daily Archives: February 5, 2014
Same-Sex Marriage and the Jews
In Mosaic Magazine (“Advancing Jewish Thought”), Sam Schulman has an article analyzing American Jews’ disproportionate level of support for gay marriage (“Same-Sex Marriage and the Jews“): The majority of American Jews, as I have already indicated, are affluent and highly … Continue reading
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Why Bach Moves Us
From a NY Review of Books piece by George B. Stauffer (“Why Bach Moves Us“) .. Bach’s identification with Martin Luther that made all the difference. Luther’s earthy German translation of the Bible, a “prose of the people,” provided Bach … Continue reading
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
In The Nation, Eric Foner’s review of David Brion Davis’s book “The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation” is a great exercise in ‘reading between the lines’: As [Davis] points out, although barely remembered today, colonization was a … Continue reading