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George Inness, “The Lackawanna Valley”
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There is a Hasidic tale that reveals, with amazing brevity, both the universal tendency to want to be someone else and the ultimate importance of becoming one’s self: Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, “In the coming world, they will not ask me: ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me:…
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Rights Not Charity: Why the 100th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti Matters Today
Why the occupation means we should think about Haiti in terms of rights, not charity.
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Thought: We’re taught in this society that if things aren’t going our way it’s because we’re not working hard enough or there’s something wrong with us. This isn’t necessarily true.
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The week before the Superbowl this year, 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver — who incidentally was the token random 49er whom I followed on Twitter — came out as a homophone. During an interview he was asked if there were gay players on the team and he responded: “No, we don’t got no gay people on…
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“I would say to young people a number of things, and I have only one minute. I would say let them remember that there is a meaning beyond absurdity. Let them be sure that every little deed counts, that every word has power, and that we do, everyone, our share to redeem the world, in…
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We may doubt anything, except that we are struck with amazement. Heschel
George Altshuler 