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Larry David’s Jewish Universe
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Brad Hirschfield
Like the old Levy’s rye bread commercial said, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Larry”. Okay, they said “to love Levy’s”, but you get the point. And it’s true, that you don’t need to be Jewish to love either, but in the case of the Larry David Show, whose eighth season on HBO…
The Book of Mormon, The Musical, Is Good For All Faiths
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Brad Hirschfield
Broadway’s hottest new musical is the Book of Mormon, and in the wake of its triumph at the Tony Awards, the temperature continues to rise – as it should. There are many reasons to like the play, but the most interesting is that it figures how to laugh with religion, not at it. Faith needs…
Oprah Winfrey Show’s Final Episode: End Of A Religion?
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Brad Hirschfield
Wednesday May 25, 2011 the lights will dim in the First Church of Oprah as the Oprah Winfrey Show ends a run began in 1986. Surprised by that formulation? Shocked that I would call the show a kind of church? Well, there is no question that Oprah created a kind of religion over the past…
Did God Create The World?
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Brad Hirschfield
Okay, to be fair, that is a somewhat hyperbolic question, and one which nobody can claim to have proof or even scientific evidence for. Of course, that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. It simply means that the endless debates about that question being answerable through science are really a waste of time. Not a waste…
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