Category Archives: Monica Osborne

The Best Tweets You’ll Read All Day

From Professor Monica Osborne: Sitting in my pitch black office because the power is out and I don’t have a window. #academia Dance like no one’s watching. Tweet like you have tenure. Isn’t that what they say? #Academia My husband … Continue reading

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Monica Osborne, Ph.D. ⎪ Dropping the H (olocaust) — Bomb: The Ethics of Post 9/11 Comedy

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Little Arab Boys Need Love Too

He was talking to a friend on Shabbos. "She said you were a little," he said, and, palms up, pumped his hands up and down. A little off? He thought only he knew that. Is it so obvious? Ouch. Then … Continue reading

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Following Monica’s Lecture, My Midrashic Impulse Will Accept No Limits

I could think of no better way to spend my sunny Monday lunch hour than to attend a UCLA lecture on the uplifting topic, "Literature, the Holocaust and the Midrashic Impulse." I covered my arms completely so that the speaker … Continue reading

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Creating God In Our Image

Through prose that is deeply poetic and critically compelling, in the latest issue of the Shofar journal, Professor Monica Osborne takes quite seriously the Talmudic assertion that “there is always another interpretation.” She writes about Alicia Striker’s new book, "For … Continue reading

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