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THE POWER
TO CLASSIFY
By Edwin Black
New technologies are enabling employers, insurers, financial
institutions, and others to collect genetic data on millions of
people, opening the door to possible widespread genetic discrimination.
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Focus:
THE POWER
TO CURE
By Mark
Washofsky
We Jews cannot in good conscience stand in opposition to a technology
that is potentially subject to abuse, but nevertheless presents us
with the prospect of saving many lives that might otherwise be lost
to illness.
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OF COMICS, Part II
By Arie Kaplan
How Jews transformed
the comic book industry. Part II of three--The Silver Age (1956-1978):
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Opinion: SHHH... IT'S A SANCTUARY
By Jeffrey K. Salkin
It was Shavuot
morning. A young woman was delivering her confirmation address from
the bimah on the lessons of the Holocaust when a toddler
began to howl--unceasingly. People in the pews began fidgeting in
discomfort. Finally, the father of another confirmand approached the
toddler's parents and politely suggested they take the child out of
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JEWISH BOOKS
New Fiction
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English
Disease: A Novel
The English had a romantic view of melancholy—the disease
we call depression—but Charles Belski, the anti-hero
of Skibell's second novel, carries inexplicable anguish to
new heights with the added component of Jewish angst. The
result is a surprisingly hilarious novel about one Jew's attempt
to find himself.
From outer
appearances, Charles leads a charmed life as a professor of
musicology at a California university, married to an attractive
gentile wife (Isabelle), and father of a precocious three-year-old
(Franny), yet the interior world of this thoroughly assimilated
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Reform Judaism: An Introduction
In
his introduction to the American Reform Movement, Dana Evan
Kaplan, a Reform rabbi and professor of Judaic studies, describes
the following scenario: an Orthodox Jew stumbles into a Reform
Friday night service and is shocked to find some of the women
wearing yarmulkes and tallitot, while many
men sit bare-headed and bare-shouldered. The phenomenon he
is discussing--the interplay between tradition and innovation--raises
the question: is the Reform Movement moving in two directions
at the same time?
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CHOICE:
A New Generation Says Goodbye to
Goodbye Columbus
Dara Horn, the
26-year-old winner of the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction,
talks about her life and her work......Full
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