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Is Your Rabbi Hot or Not?
Once is lucky. Twice is nice. Three times—well, anyone can tell you that’s a tradition. It is a great pleasure, then, to unveil the third annual installment of what we at NEWSWEEK fondly call the “hot rabbis list.” Created, maintained […]
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Dambisa Moyo: Africa doesn’t need Bono
Thanks, Bono, but No Thanks Photos of celebrities with poor African children don’t ‘help me raise a child who believes she can be a doctor or an engineer.’ Dambisa Moyo is having her moment. The beautiful Zambian economist, formerly of Goldman Sachs and educated at Harvard and Oxford, arrives in New York this week to…
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Jesus on Facebook
A Christian by Any Other Name On Facebook, more than 900 groups use a variation of ‘follower of Jesus.’ It doesn’t carry baggage. Ward Brehm doesn’t call himself a Christian. “I just call myself a follower of Jesus,” says Brehm, […]
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Buying Gold as a Hedge
Cash In A Mattress? No, Gold In The Closet. With prices setting new records, the worried wealthy are piling up ingots in home safes. NEWSWEEK goes shopping for precious metal. A hundred-ounce gold bar, when you hold it in your […]
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Is there a right way to read the Bible?
The Good, the Bad, the Bible Is there a right way to read the Bible? This question came to me as I was reading “The Good Book,” by David Plotz. The author, who is the editor of Slate, was thumbing […]
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Applying to Seminary and Divinity School
Everyone, it seems, has a “Plan B.” You’ve had the conversation yourself with your spouse and probably with friends over dinner. In the event you can no longer be a journalist—or an investment banker, lawyer or literary agent—what will you […]
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God’s Miraculous Makeover
You likely believe that when you die, you’re going to heaven. More than 80 percent of Americans do. But in what form? Are you “you”? If so, are you old or young, fat or thin? If not, what are you? […]
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What Rick Warren Said
After a month of controversy, Rick Warren’s performance Tuesday at the inauguration of President Barack Obama was like a good short story: in the end, it was both inevitable and surprising. The first surprise was Warren’s evident awkwardness as he […]
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Faith Beyond His Father’s
V.Doug Paul was born in July 1981 in Richmond, Va.—demographics that make his birth, in a sense, historic. He was born, six months after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration, to conservative Christian parents who knew for the first time the thrill of […]
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God and the Oath of Office
Why shouldn’t Barack Obama say “so help me God” when he takes the oath of office on Jan. 20? That’s what I wondered when I learned of the lawsuit, to be heard by a federal judge this week, which aims […]