Friday, October 3, 2014

Important Note to Students

[All red links are clickable.]  Remember the Reformation Roundtable Discussion will be held  on Tuesday (6th and 8th) and Wednesday (7th), so make sure you do some research on your religious or political character over the weekend. Second, please read the great write-up by Mr. Janus of the theater talk given by Charlie Newell. Third, please order a new/used/Kindle version of Jewel in the Crown, by Paul Scott, which we will begin using the week of Oct 13 or 21.  Finally, we encourage you to read the WSJ's article linked here, Europe's Alarming New Anti-Semitism, which argues that "the driving thrust of the assault on Jews is new. Today’s anti-Semitism differs from the old in three ways. First, its pretext. In the Middle Ages, Jews were hated for their religion. In the 19th and 20th centuries, they were hated for their race. Today, they are hated for their nation state. Israel, now 66 years old, still finds itself the only country among the 193 in the United Nations whose right to exist is routinely challenged and in many quarters denied."

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