Yearly Archives: 2006

Small breakthroughs in Muslim-Jewish relations

Posted on December 31, 2006 by

Mas’ood Cajee’s article on The Top Ten Good News Stories Of 2006 at Alt.Muslim included a section on Small breakthroughs in Muslim-Jewish relations, Palestine struggle. Here are a few excerpts from the list: 120 Imams & Rabbis from 31 countries … Continue reading →

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Middle East Coexistence House

Posted on December 29, 2006 by

The Middle East Coexistence House (at Rutgers University’s Douglass College) is housing four Jewish, three Muslim, one Hindu, one Catholic, and one agnostic woman. I learned about it from a link at the New Jersey Jewish News’ current article pointing … Continue reading →

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Winter 2007 courses

Posted on December 28, 2006 by

My strategy for picking classes is trying to go through the required classes starting from bottom up and take elective classes that sound interesting and relevant to what I would want to do in the future. Thus from the three … Continue reading →

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Autumn 2006 courses

Posted on December 28, 2006 by

In my first quarter at the iSchool I took 3 classes. At this time I had to take preset classes, from the next quarter one I can select my own. Up to a certain degree, because in order to graduate, … Continue reading →

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Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition

Posted on December 26, 2006 by

A few weeks ago we went to see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at the Pacific Science Center with two friends. First we had a nice lunch at a Greek/Mediterranean restaurant Olive You. By now from all the menu items … Continue reading →

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Kabbalah for the Masses?

Posted on December 26, 2006 by

The question above was on the mind of enough rabbis and academics to organize a conference around it. As I read the summary in the JewishJournal.com almost everybody who is somebody in today’s world of Kabbalah was there. Just look … Continue reading →

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The Fountain (2006, USA)

Posted on December 25, 2006 by

My expectations were going up and down before I managed to get to see this movie. I had so much preliminary information that y the time I got there I did not know what I wanted to expect. I first … Continue reading →

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Lost Room (2006, USA)

Posted on December 25, 2006 by

We watched the new, 3 part mini series Lost Room of the Sci-Fi channel, because it looked intriguing. That it certainly was. It was a rather enjoyable show, with engaging story line, characters, cinematography, but with the usual non-closure that … Continue reading →

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Muslims remembering the Holocaust

Posted on December 24, 2006 by

I heard/saw it on Voice of America that Muslim leaders gathered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum this week to honor and remember Holocaust victims from World War II. The speakers included Elie Wiesel, Imam Mohamed Magid of the All … Continue reading →

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Leonora Leet: The Universal Kabbalah (2004)

Posted on December 24, 2006 by

The Backyard Professor’s blog entry on cool video about sound and creation (and rice and a metal sheet) re-introduced me to Leonora Leets. She has four Kabbalah books out, of which I already listed the first two earlier: The Secret … Continue reading →

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