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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
Posted in David Suissa, Limmud, Monica Osborne, Personal
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
Posted in Hollywood, Holocaust, Jewish Literature, Monica Osborne, UCLA
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
Posted in Bible, Monica Osborne, Torah
Tagged bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, collective desire, creating god, hiroshima and nagasaki, meaningful dialogue, twists and turns
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