Friday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Philip Jenkins on Orthodoxy in East Africa: "Orthodoxy's roots in Egypt and Ethiopia are ancient. In East Africa there is a younger movement: a native Orthodoxy, locally grown." (subscription required)

• Harold Bush reviews Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick: "The title of Nathaniel Philbrick’s slim new meditation foregrounds the questions at the heart of every assignment made by every English teacher: Why read this book? Or that book? For that matter, why do we assign reading in the first place?" (subscription required)

• Debra Bendis calls for adult-ed suggestions

• Lil Copan on art by Jake Weidmann (subscription required)

• Tom Scott's vision of the singularity, ruined by lawyers

In the news:

• Federal appeals court rules against gay marriage ban
• Malcolm X's pivotal letter on race at center of dispute between Syracuse, Alex Haley's family
• Mosque construction continues to attract opposition across U.S.
• Israel agrees to recognize non-Orthodox rabbis