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Gelernter: The Correlation Between Jews And Non-Jewish
Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University. Gelernter had an incident where his right hand and eye get damaged because somebody sent him a package that he believed was a doctoral dissertation but it wasn’t, it was a bomb sent by Ted Kaczynski who the FBI dubbed the Unabomber. According to WNET (2010), "Gelernter presents himself as a local guide to the faith, offering to lead Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike into what he calls “the inner courtyard” of Judaism to see what cannot be seen from the outside." Gelernter grew up in a Jewish family, his grandpa was a rabbi. He have a master degree in Hebrew Bible and computer science. According to LEFKOWITZ (2010), "With "separation" (between Jew and non-Jew, the Sabbath and
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