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    This week, Bruce J. Hill­man shares the sto­ry behind his first non-med­ical book, The Man Who Stalked Ein­stein: How Nazi Sci­en­tist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of…
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    Ear­li­er this week, Sigal Samuel wrote about envi­sion­ing a mys­ti­cal expe­ri­ence for the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry against the tra­di­tions of Kab­bal­ah. She is…
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    My father was a busi­ness­man in Cleve­land, Ohio. He and I loved each oth­er deeply, even if we didn’t see eye-to-eye on so many things. Here is a typ­i­cal…
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    Recent­ly named Opin­ion Edi­tor at the For­ward, Sigal Samuel is the author of The Mys­tics of Mile End, a nov­el bend­ing stan­dard con­cepts of com­mu­ni­ty, gen­der, and…
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