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  Prisoners of Gravity: Tolkien (Part 1/3)

  Originally broadcast November 24th, 1993. This part includes clips with Walt Simonson, Charles Vess, Mike Ploog, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles De Lint.
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  Why Johnny Can't Speed - Alan Dean Foster

  Excerpt from a short story by Alan Dean Foster titled, "Why Johnny Can't Speed". This is from an anthology of science fiction short stories titled, "Science Fiction A to Z", collected by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh and published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1982. The original story was published in 1971 in Galaxy Magazine.
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  Marc Ellis-"Does Judaism Equal Israel?" 5of12

  Segment 5: Elie Wiesel, Emil Fakenheim, US Holocaust Museum, Rabbi Irving Greenberg. Professor Marc H. Ellis, widely recognized as one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of his generation, spoke in Toronto on 14 November 2009 as part of a cross-Canada tour to launch his new book Judaism Does Not Equal Israel which notes the danger to Judaism in identifying with a nation-state. What does it mean, Ellis asks, to be a Jew after the Holocaust, after Israel, and after what Israel has done and is doing to the Palestinian people? He believes that this question is one of fidelity to Judaism itself. Ellis's observations lead to conclusions that challenge all of our roles in perpetuating the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, including our understanding of anti-Semitism, of Jewish-Christian dialogue, and our acceptance of a state which privileges one religion or ethnicity over others. A leading authority on contemporary Judaism, Marc H. Ellis is University Professor of American and Jewish Studies and the founding director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University; he is the author of fifteen books and has written articles published in the International Herald Tribune, Christian Century, and Haaretz. Ellis regularly provides commentary and analysis on NPR and the BBC and has been inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College. He lives in Waco, Texas.

• Prisoners of Gravity: Tolkien (Part 1/3)

• Why Johnny Can't Speed - Alan Dean Foster

• Marc Ellis-"Does Judaism Equal Israel?" 5of12