Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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News ‘Satanic Verses’ and Rabbinic Law Cross Paths at Yeshiva University
It was a meeting of minds as congenial as it was unlikely. Author Salman Rushdie, a secularist critic of religious fundamentalism, paid a visit to the main New York campus of Yeshiva University, the flagship institution of Modern Orthodoxy. He met with a small group of students in the afternoon and then delivered a lecture…
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Culture The Return Of Shylock
In November 2003, when billionaire George Soros was first establishing himself as a force in the presidential campaign, a writer for the Web site GOPUSA spelled out his feelings about the financier with great conciseness when he referred to him as a “Hungarian-born descendant of Shylock.” Shakespeare’s most famous villain may be more than 400…
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News Charity Gets by With a Little Help From a Friend
What does it take to join together a rock legend with a Jewish women’s charity? A stapler, of course. As part of an online charity auction sponsored by office-supply giant Staples, Ringo Starr has autographed a stapler that will be up for bid on the company’s Web site (www.staples.com) from November 16 to December 6….
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News The Internet’s Virtual Community: Boom or Bust?
JDate offers Jewish singles a place to mix and mingle online. The Web site Jewishpartisans.org promises to imbue young Jews with a more muscular sense of Jewish identity through stories of resistance to the Holocaust. Toldot.org extends to the “next generation” an online Jewish museum without the hassles of an overpriced café. The Internet is…
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News The Peace Process Marches On… Television, at Least
Advised by his Cabinet to strike against a country thought to have had a hand in the murder of Americans, the commander in chief grows indignant. “Are you suggesting,” he sneers, “we use the attack… as a pretext to attack another country we don’t know to be responsible?” A John Kerry daydream? Hardly. The speaker…
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News Online Dating Service Flirts With Public Stock Offering
Online dating service seeks IPO investors, long walks in the park. After it was announced last week that the corporate parent of JDate.com, the leading Jewish Internet dating site, was making moves toward an initial public offering of its stock, JDaters stopped to wonder: Just what does this mean for me? “As though I didn’t…
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