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  • Glitched detail of the 13th-century "Pugio Fidei" manuscript by Raimundo Marti, c.1220-after 1286
    Glitched detail of the 13th-century "Pugio Fidei" manuscript by Raimundo Marti, c.1220-after 1286
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    The Dagger of Faith in the Digital Age

    A vitriolic medieval manuscript illuminates how Google is destroying the act of reading

    byRyan Szpiech
  • (Milosz_M / Shutterstock.com)
    (Milosz_M / Shutterstock.com)
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    Man Sues After Landing in Grenada, Not Granada

    American with Spanish-Jewish heritage wanted to visit the Andalusian city

    byStephanie Butnick
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    Convivencia

    A plaintive Gypsy song, possibly of Ladino origin, is hybridized and reinterpreted, then viewed on the Internet, where roots and homelands blur

    byAndré Aciman
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    Everything Is Illuminated

    Three rare medieval Hebrew Bibles on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York reveal the affinity between Sephardic and Islamic texts

    byRobin Cembalest
  • A cottonwood at the base of the San Rafael Reef.(Bryant Olsen/Flickr)
    A cottonwood at the base of the San Rafael Reef.(Bryant Olsen/Flickr)
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    Rooted

    Jacqueline Osherow’s latest collection, Whitethorn, offers poems engaged at once with the literature of the Jewish past and the landscape of the American present

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Córdoba, Spain.(Wikimedia)
    Córdoba, Spain.(Wikimedia)
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    Why Cordoba?

    The Ground Zero Islamic center was named for a period in Spanish-Muslim history that some call a golden age of tolerance

    byMarc Tracy
  • (Courtesy Matt Herskowitz)
    (Courtesy Matt Herskowitz)
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    Imagined Harmonies

    Two musicians find inspiration in the idea of Jews and non-Jews living side-by-side

    byAlexander Gelfand
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