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ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SEVEN

Omid Safi: 9 points to ponder on the Paris shooting and Charlie Hebdo. Let us hope that it is not merely the freedom of speech that we hold sacred, but the freedom to live a meaningful life, though others find it problematic. Let us hope that the freedom to speak, to pray, to dress asContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SEVEN”

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE

From Aharon Appelfeld: INTERVIEWER The German spoken by your parents, you said later, was similar to the German of Franz Kafka. APPELFELD Yes, Franz Kafka—of all the writers, Franz Kafka. When I read him, he was immediately familiar to me. INTERVIEWER So you had a secular upbringing but with some knowledge of religion from your grandparents?Continue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE”