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3 days ago · Rabbi Akiva lived between the 1st and 2nd century CE and became the greatest of all the sages in the Torah. He participated in composing the Mishnah and the Halacha [Jewish code of law]. The rumor...
1 day ago · As an old English adage has it, ‘all is fair in love and war’. Upon closer consideration, falling in love and fighting a war have much in common – passion, obstinacy, hurt feelings, irrational waste of resources and a strong desire to hurt your opponent. Perhaps, then, ending a war is similar in some ways to finishing an ill-fated romance.
1 day ago · book response, to Rom-Shiloni's Voices From the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible
3 days ago · Celebrity fandom worldwide is in disarray. Virginia Woolf (born January 25, 1882, London, England—died March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex) was an English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre.
- She was best known for her novels, especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). She also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theor...
- Virginia Woolf was married to British man of letters, publisher, and internationalist Leonard Woolf. They met before 1904 and married in August 1912.
- Virginia Woolf drowned herself in Sussex, England, on March 28, 1941, when she was 59 years old.
- In addition to Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), she wrote the novels The Voyage Out (1915), Jacob’s Room (1922), Orlando (1928),...
5 days ago · MONTREAL — For Alex Wolff, portraying legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen required a deep dive into the poet's early works and learning new guitar skills. The 26-year-old U.S. actor and musician stars as Cohen in “So Long, Marianne,” an eight-part Crave series premiering on Friday.
3 days ago · Standing in the very throne room in which Queen Lil‘uokalani was deposed, Farrington intoned, “Hawaii became part of the United States by its own request.” “New England furnishes the basis of Hawaii’s present day progress.” “American Christianity saved the native Hawaiians from the degradation and destruction that would have been possible if Americans had followed the easy course of making headway by ruthlessness.”
5 days ago · MONTREAL — For Alex Wolff, portraying legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen required a deep dive into the poet's early works and learning new guitar skills. The 26-year-old U.S.
