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Telescopes Old and New: Celebrating the Jewish New Year at the American Academy in Rome (opens the original)
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Here at the American Academy in Rome, my study is in a building called the casa rustica, so named because it’s nestled into a garden beside a grove of olive trees. And it stands on the site where in 1611 Galileo demonstrated how his telescope worked. As I study Jewish ideas about land and environment in the pre-modern past, I do so on the spot where Galileo once confirmed his revolutionary ideas about celestial bodies. On a good day this is inspiring; other days it’s somewhat terrifying.<div cla
My Experience of Antiquity: A Sun Dance Sweat Lodge (opens the original)
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