The first parsha of Vayikra (also called Vayikra) introduce the system of sacrifices, or korbanot. The Hebrew word for sacrifice, korban (קרבן), comes from the root ק־ר־ב, meaning “to come near.” A ...

The philosopher, who has died aged 96, was often caricatured as a consensus-seeking liberal. But his belief in the need for shared understanding had a radical underpinning, says German philosopher Eva ...

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Coetzee, in the city from which he had emerged, a city that he’d intermittently written about—without revealing much of it—and then left, in 2002. The 86-year-old author’s legacy, I’d been told, ...

By mid-1983, the political theatre of Tamil Nadu had ceased to be a local affair confined to the legislative halls of Madras ...

The peninsular tongue, Tamil, found in Robert Caldwell an admirer so ardent, yet so profoundly ambiguous, that his scholarly ...

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He wrote a book on anti-white bias. The White House noticed.