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Jewish Sin City: Al Capone’s Chicago Meets Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans
JEFFREY VEIDLINGER | Odessa is one of those cities that somehow never fails to stimulate the imagination...
Aug 6, 2013


The Marriage of Religion and Technology: Reading Apple’s Allegorical Advertising
BRETT T. ROBINSON | Steve Jobs invited a number of lofty comparisons during his career...
Aug 2, 2013


Sterilizing the Bible
CHARLES HALTON | I remember the first time I heard the C-word used to translate the Bible...
Jul 30, 2013


40 Years On: Adela Yarbro Collins talks to Michael Thate
ADELA YARBRO COLLINS | Many Christian believers read the New Testament for theological, ethical, and spiritual guidance...
Jul 21, 2013


Rescuing the Memory of a Dynamic and Visionary Figure
KALMAN WEISER | It is one of the ironies of history that the man who coined the term “Zionism” is scarcely and, for the most part, uncharitably remembered in the historiography of the Zionist movement...
Jul 16, 2013


Looking to the Medieval to Understand Modern Art
NANCY THEBAUT | What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane from 1909 possibly have to do with one another?...
Jul 15, 2013


The Havoc Freedom Wrought
DAVID DE BRUIJN | Looking at the Middle East today is much like standing atop one of the few remaining structures in a bombed-out city...
Jul 14, 2013


Karima Bennoune on Human Rights, Religion, and Democracy in the Arab Spring
KARIMA BENNOUNE | For my forthcoming book, Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here, I have interviewed about 300 people from almost 30 Muslim majority countries...
Jul 14, 2013


Re-Examining Hanukkah
JOHN MA | The Seleucid king Antiochus IV persecuted the Jews, prohibited Judaism, and profaned the Temple...
Jul 8, 2013


Gustavo A. Ramirez on the Rock Art of Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico
GUSTAVO A. RAMIREZ | Although the mural paintings of Burgos, Tamaulipas were known since many years ago, the first time that the National Institute of Anthropology and History...
Jul 2, 2013


Searching for the Meaning of “Russian”
SIMON RABINOVITCH | In St. Petersburg the Russian Museum stands next to the Russian Museum of Ethnography...
Jul 1, 2013


Can a Reader use Western Literary Theory to Approach the Qur’an?
RACHEL FRIEDMAN | Since the time of its appearance in seventh-century Arabia, the Qur’an has been the subject of rich and diverse commentaries, a testament to its power as experienced by Muslim and non-Muslim audiences...
Jun 24, 2013
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