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Life A Chief Rabbi Who Deserves the Title
Ha’aretz has a nice profile of British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, a real treasure for British Jewry and Britain as a whole. He is, as the Ha’aretz article demonstrates, a rare figure, an Orthodox leader who speaks and writes on issues of universal import — and has garnered the admiration of his non-Jewish countrymen. (One…
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Life Olympic Logo Rorschach Test
An article in today’s New York Times reports that the newly-unveiled — and wildly unpopular — logo for the 2012 London Olympics has, among other things, been compared to a swastika. But not all have seen grounds for charging antisemitism. Daniel Finkelstein of the London Times sees embedded in the design the word “zion.”
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