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Shaul Magid

Shaul Magid teaches Modern Judaism at Harvard Divinity School, is a senior research fellow at The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, a Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, and the rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue. His latest book is The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance.

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Religion Dispatches
Irving (Yitz) Greenberg once said about talking or writing about the Holocaust, “Don’t say anything that you wouldn’t say in front of burning children.” It’s an ominous comment, emotionally charged…
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Religion Dispatches
A week after elections that produced the most far-right government in Israel’s history, the protests began — protests that increased exponentially in numerous cities and towns. In some way, it seemed…
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Religion Dispatches
When I was in yeshiva in Boro Park in the early 80s, I was asked by my Rosh Yeshiva, a Satmar Hasid, to go to Downtown Brooklyn to sign a few documents for state funds for the yeshiva. When I got…
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