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Willow Creek Rising
“Come on already, Mom!”
In a spacious, busy parking lot in this northwest Chicago suburb among patchworks of rolling farmlands, nondescript office parks and sprawling housing subdivisions, an 8-year-old boy looked over his shoulder and flashed an expression of severe annoyance at his yawning, sluggish mother.
“Let’s go! Let’s go!” the boy, wearing a T-shirt, baseball cap, jeans and sneakers, barked on a recent windy Sunday morning at his similarly casually-dressed mother. In the middle of a parking row, amid dozens of orange-jacketed…
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BHU Acting Head Leaving
Dr. David S. Ariel, Baltimore Hebrew University’s acting president since last fall, recently announced he will leave that position to become president of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in Oxford, Great Britain.
He is expected to remain at BHU through the middle of this summer.
“I think I have been able to help provide the vision for the future, to help…
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Dershowitz Blasts Israel Critics
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz spent a Sunday in Baltimore that few who heard him speak will ever forget.
During the day, May 4, he spoke on behalf of the University of Baltimore School of Law. His topic was “Defending Truth: Legal and Moral Imperatives of Holocaust Denial.”
That evening, he carried his message to more than 1,800 who packed Baltimore Hebrew Congregation as part…
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