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Shaked, Amulets and Magical Bowls: Aramaic Inscriptions of Late Antiquity Jerusalem: Magnes, 1985; more generally, the recent dissertation of H.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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In an ironic twist, some of the New York financiers who initially spurned Einstein ended up supporting it, and they insisted on installing as chancellor Rabbi Judah Magnes, the person who had clashed with Einstein in 1921 and canceled a reception when Einstein insisted on turning it into a fund-raiser.
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Some Jews recall Zionist visions from the years before 1948 that included skepticism and even opposition to a Jewish state, positions advocated by leading Jewish thinkers such as Martin Buber and Rabbi Judah Magnes.
Nancy Fuchs Kreimer: Jewish Heresies, Then and Now Nancy Fuchs Kreimer 2011
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Einstein was so upset by the appointment of Magnes that he resigned from the board in protest.
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In an ironic twist, some of the New York financiers who initially spurned Einstein ended up supporting it, and they insisted on installing as chancellor Rabbi Judah Magnes, the person who had clashed with Einstein in 1921 and canceled a reception when Einstein insisted on turning it into a fund-raiser.
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Some Jews recall Zionist visions from the years before 1948 that included skepticism and even opposition to a Jewish state, positions advocated by leading Jewish thinkers such as Martin Buber and Rabbi Judah Magnes.
Nancy Fuchs Kreimer: Jewish Heresies, Then and Now Nancy Fuchs Kreimer 2011
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“I did not have in mind a fund-raising meeting,” Magnes replied in a cold and curt letter.
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Shaked, Amulets and Magical Bowls: Aramaic Inscriptions of Late Antiquity Jerusalem: Magnes, 1985; more generally, the recent dissertation of H.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Shaked, Amulets and Magical Bowls: Aramaic Inscriptions of Late Antiquity Jerusalem: Magnes, 1985; more generally, the recent dissertation of H.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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“I did not have in mind a fund-raising meeting,” Magnes replied in a cold and curt letter.
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