... on his back. For slow was fast enough for him. But on the fourth day out, in scree and stone, the customs officer barred his way. “Any valuables to declare?” “None.” And the boy who led the ox spoke up: “He taught me.” So that was then declared. But the man, his eyes lighting up, went...

...Creative Commons/Deyan Sedlarski ( behance.net/rubixstudio ) The old adage, “Know your customer,” has been carried to extremes. Are these invasions of privacy starting to unravel our very notion of personhood? ...

... or mall. Further, some mobile phones collect and store an average of twenty pieces of information per customer, including the person’s age, gender, race, income, health, travel patterns, interests, purchasing his­ tory, and whether she or he has children. Using these data, smart­ phones can...

...No Name Collective Activists march to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in downtown Chicago during an action to “Shut Down ICE.” In response to the action, ICE canceled a “public dialogue” about plans to build a new detention camp in Crete, Illinois. ...

... critical role. This is present in many of his writings and he advised that “in whatever way possible the religion and customs of ‘Muhammadanism’ be published and spread abroad.” 6 Luther therefore argued in 1530, in his preface to Libellus de ritu et moribus Turcorum (Book of the Rites and Customs...

... of a scholarly study from 1991, Mutual and Cooperative Enterprises: An Analysis of Customer-Owned Firms in the United States , savings and loans associations sprang from “the efforts of philanthropists and reformers who considered existing arrangements . . . to be inadequate or exploitative,” and their first...

... businesses to discriminate against customers on the basis of an undefined “sincerely held religious belief.” The bill followed a New Mexico court case between a gay couple and a wedding photography company that wanted to deny them service, so it’s clear which customers and which “sincerely held religious...

... of the border zone, la zona fronteriza, first by the military, then by the Texas Rangers, and most recently by the Border Patrol and other Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agencies. Inherent in this militarization one finds abuse and racist policies. Our country stands at a crossroads. Even as we...

... the threshold into mundane time and space, he stops to explain the custom of leaving string knots on the grid over the well of re­ quests. He turns to me. “Rabbi,” he says, “this question is for you: Is it not true you have a cus­ tom of placing paper in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem? Is this a comparable...

...; as customs inspectorscredulous, she wakes up alive but scabby. starved for human histories, they swallow Unversed in poetic justice, cock and bull tales, and let through the body forgives...

... and professional future in the US? The specter of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweeps hover over their lives. Their anxiety is palpable. My students from Trump’s suspect nations fare even worse. One young Syrian woman has a boyfriend in detention seeking asylum. I see her anxiety as she worries...

.... It next commanded Mr. Rosen to pray every day and study the Torah. The fish identified itself as the soul of a former customer, a pious Hasidic man who’d died, childless, the year before. He’d often bought carp at the shop to chop up and grind into gefilte fish for Sabbath meals for the poor. He...

.... Genital mutilations of girls and women are still condoned by custom and religion in parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, as are so-called honor killings. The World Health Organization reports that a huge proportion of women worldwide have been physically abused by an intimate partner and that rape...

... to use volunteer labor, because in the past, whenever people needed a house ora bam, the Lauren Reichelt tests the new swings while a friend holds her whole community came together to build. We’re reviving indigenous customs.” daughter, Chloe, who was a Actually, I knew...

.... I plead for the bringer of rain and dew to come to the groves of Dayr al-Dubban. I wash myself in the custom of Wa'arat al-Sarris, first feet, then hands, then with ablutions of the face...

... grappling with self and society, she is an American prophet. I argued with some of her ideas, (a Jew, in my view, is someone who argues). The essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” was, for me, a bomb exploding right on my corner. Her impassioned arraignment of male law, custom...

... as sins. As someone born male, my sins and medical ethics) ignorance of the complexities of gender and, included wearing women’s clothing and taking hormones that de­ as a number of Orthodox commentators noted, violate Jewish stroyed my fertility. I was also violating customs...

... Japanese photographer on the beach who like me is in Vancouver for three days, and, as is now my custom, take her picture with her own camera, though at her request (Not me! Vancouver!) 1 make her small in the frame...