Benjamin Blech
By Benjamin Blech
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Opinion Stephen Hawking’s Worst Nightmare? Golem 2.0
The Maharal of Prague brings the Golem to life / Tumblr (JTA) — Stephen Hawking is much in the news these days. His personal story, the subject of the recently released film “The Theory of Everything,” is already spoken of as an Oscar contender. Diagnosed in 1963 with the dreaded Lou Gehrig’s disease and given two…
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News Pontiff Received an Unlikely Rabbinical Blessing at Vatican
How does a rabbi feel when he meets the pope? As a 10th-generation rabbi, that’s something I thought was about as likely to happen to me as playing the romantic lead in a Julia Roberts movie. My world is the ivory tower of Jewish academia, not the Vatican. The people I’m used to seeing with…
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