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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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Tagged arab boys, making an omelette, off kilter, seducer, slaughter goats, tears in my eyes
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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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Tagged Holocaust, impulse, lunch hour, sunny monday, UCLA
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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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Tagged bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, collective desire, creating god, hiroshima and nagasaki, meaningful dialogue, twists and turns
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Would You Learn Midrash From This Woman?
I was looking for a drasha on the Torah from a PhD friend of mine and when I went to her MySpace, I found this pic:
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Jew Or Christian?
Monica Osborne blogs: Last week, one young woman, a great student, asked me earnestly if the confusing reference to both God and God’s messenger in the story of Moses’s encounter with the burning bush was a reference to “the trinity.” … Continue reading
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A World Gone Mad
Monica Osborne blogs: I used to say that one of the main (though there are many) differences between Indiana and California is the fact that people in Indiana fry everything, and love every second of it, while Californians turn up … Continue reading
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Of Masks And Men
Monica Osborne blogs: …It’s rare, for example, to see shoppers cutting each other off with their carts and waving their middle fingers. The reason for this is obvious: when you have to look someone in the face you are confronted … Continue reading
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Jewish Lit Dying?
Monica Osborne writes for Jewcy.com: In his review of Michael Chabon’s new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases, William Deresiewicz says of the state of American Judaism: My own experience tells me that American Judaism has long … Continue reading
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