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Creating an American-Jewish Counterculture
Oct 31, 2011 By Carol K. Ingall | Public Event video
This lecture was part of the 100th anniversary celebration of The Teachers Institute of The Jewish Theological Seminary.
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The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education
Oct 27, 2011 By Carol K. Ingall | Public Event audio
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Avraham the Avatar
Oct 7, 2009 By Carol K. Ingall | Commentary | Vayera
Although many of us recognize the word avatar as a representation of the self in computer games (a “mini-me,” or so my granddaughter tells me), in fact the term originates in Hindu mythology. An avatar is a personification or embodiment of a divine principle. While we traditionally refer to Avraham as avinu, our father, perhaps we would get a more nuanced view of this biblical hero by imagining Avraham as an avatar.
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