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COMMENTARY: Mourning the Loss of Israel’s Intellectual Crown Jewels

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 2000

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the senior interreligious adviser of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) Two giants of the human spirit died within a week of each other last month in Jerusalem. David Flusser, a scholar of the first century, and Yehuda Amichai, a poet of the 2...
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COMMENTARY: Let the Christmas Card Rush Begin

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 2000

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the mother of two sons and the author of five books.) (UNDATED) In about a week, the first pangs of guilt will strike. They will be brought on by a Christmas card with an embossed return address, a perfect studio photo and a lovely letter deta...
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COMMENTARY: Why my SAT score was wrong and other injustices of life

RNS Blog Editor | Jun 2, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of RNS and gets hives when she gets within 100 miles of Princeton, N.J.) UNDATED _ If someone had just asked me, I could have settled the whole thing years ago. But it finally took the U.S. Department of Education to explain wh...
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RNS Daily Digest

RNS Blog Editor | Feb 12, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service Israeli president warns of violence at Orthodox protest (RNS) With Orthodox leaders threatening to mobilize a half-million supporters for a weekend protest, Israel's president met Thursday (Feb. 11) with a leading rabbi in an effort he said was designed to prevent...
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NEWS FEATURE: Author urges sexual counter-revolution

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ At age 23, Wendy Shalit has burst onto the American public scene as the newest Rorschach test. Reactions to her book promoting sexual modesty range from raves to withering dismissals. George Will, in Newsweek, turned in a rave: ``Think Katie Couric with Ed...
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NEWS FEATURE: Evangelists bring promise of salvation with Moscow truck-stop ministry

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service MOSCOW _ If there were a special place in hell for wicked truckers, it might well look like the wretched Rostov truck stop located on the 8-lane highway that encircles this city. Calling it a truck stop is being generous. There is no restaurant, no snack bar, no sto...
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NEWS FEATURE: Philanthropist’s gift aims at college spirituality

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service BOSTON _ Boston College was in a bind. With inadequate slots for volunteer work and student spiritual retreats, the Jesuit college was forced last year to wait-list 150 students for a program that combines academics and community service and 400 students for a weeke...
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COMMENTARY: Math and a large God

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.) UNDATED _ Labor Day weekend brought two boys home from college and unusual topics to our dinner table conversation. We talked about mathematic...
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COMMENTARY: Leaving the Vu

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.) UNDATED _ A week ago, while in the role of son, I went for a run along the canal cutting diagonally across the north side of my hometown. At 5...
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COMMENTARY: Real knowing

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.) INDIANAPOLIS - When I walk in my hometown, I like to include a stretch through my old neighborhood. For a time after leaving for college, I co...
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