What the Prez is Passing Over: Obama’s Public Rituals. Word 24

WORD: A Word a Week from the World’s Best Seller. Follow the Annual Torah Re-Run Series with Amichai Lau-Lavie’s Newest Year-Long Blog. To subscribe via email click here. To listen to the audio version click here. play RITUAL תורת Loudspeaker carrying police cars woke me up on Wed. morning with instructions about our roads closing […]

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Are world leaders getting younger or am I getting older? (or both) Word #18

WORD: A Word a Week from the World’s Best Seller. Follow the Annual Torah Re-Run Series with Amichai Lau-Lavie’s Newest Year-Long Blog. To subscribe via email click here. To listen to the audio version click here.   play Elders זקנים It’s not that I feel old or unaccomplished at 43 but I was startled by […]

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Obama Wins Jerusalem: 4 Years Later + Again

Published by Quartz: www.qz.com   When the sun rose over Jerusalem four years ago I sobbed for joy because of the poetic justice of a black man’s triumph. I remember driving on streets named for American icons whose work had led to that triumph—Lincoln Street, then Martin Luther King Rd—as the early morning November fogs […]

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