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Happy New Year to Jews out there, who are probably not exactly celebrating the occasion by checking out a blog. But in case you’re not reading the NYT either, I couldn’t resist pointing out a sentence deep in my friend Peter Applebome’s column about the rabbi of Woodstock. First, a scene setter: Peter focuses on…

As many of you know, I’m working on a new book about the Bible in America. One of the things I write about is the Liberty Bell, which has a quote from Leviticus 25 on its side. The words say, “Proclaim Liberty Throughout the World unto all the Inhabitants Thereof,” but the quote itself comes…

The biggest crisis in the entertainment business that you’ve never heard of, and may not even care about, is the crisis of finding circus acts. This problem has fascinated me since my year as a circus clown some years back. One huge problem is that Eastern European countries had state sponsored circuses, and that supply…

So far, God seems to be the big loser in the ’08 election. Defying every prognostication, the candidates leading in the polls — Rudy and Hillary — are viewed as the least religious. And the “most religious” candidate on the scene these days, not Bush, but Romney. Maybe his ploy to say that being religious…
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