Families Return to Devastated Communities As Crews Struggle to Contain L.A. Blazes
Los Angeles city and county officials said Friday that the blazes in Pacific Palisades and Altadena were just 8% and 3% ...
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Saving Torah scrolls and saying prayers Los Angeles fires leave congregants without worship spaces
Flames were already attacking the campus of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center when the cantor, Ruth Berman Harris, and three ...
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Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, choosing an Italian nun
Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic ...
LA wildfires destroy numerous houses of worship. Clergy and congregants vow to persevere
Among the thousands of buildings destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires were a mosque, a synagogue, a Catholic parish and a half-dozen Protestant churches.
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11 dead and 12,000 buildings destroyed as LA fires continue to burn
Tens of thousands of people are displaced as crews battle fires that have already ravaged an area larger than the city of ...
David Lodge, novelist and academic, 1935-2025
David Lodge once confessed to having a fondness for binary structures. Imagine, he wrote, “two professors passing each other over the North Pole on their way to exchange jobs . . . or a parallel ...
The last days of Walter Benjamin
Benjamin was a generally unhappy, unlucky and unwell man. He was also the most original thinker of modernity, obsessed with the politics of culture, the possibilities of new technology and the ...