DURHAM, N.H. — Hillary Clinton tackled the issue of rising college costs and student debt before a packed room of students and educators at the University of New Hampshire, where she also picked up the endorsement of New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan.
Noting that there are more than 40 million Americans carrying more than $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, on Friday Clinton said it's high time for solutions that both Republicans and Democrats in Washington could get behind. Recent figures from the U.S. Department of Education show about 6.9 million of those borrowers hadn't made payments due in almost a year or more, up 6 percent in the past year, according to the Wall Street Journal.
What better time than the Jewish holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, to tackle a new book about Adam and Eve? After all, the founding couple from the Bible's Book of Genesis are as important to the Jewish tradition as they are to the Christian tradition, aren't they?
Well, not really. And this is one reason why scientist, scholar and writer Karl W. Giberson's book, Saving the Original Sinner (Beacon Press, 212 pages), is so fascinating.
