Category Archives: Judaism

Tikkun Olam And Other Great Jewish Ideas (7-12-21)

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Luke Ford

Tikkun Olam And Other Great Jewish Ideas (7-12-21) https://t.co/6YKGCPyogb — (((Luke Ford))) (@lukeford) July 13, 2021 00:00 Reb Doooovid joins, https://twitter.com/RebDoooovid 02:00 Doooovid’s Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/doooovid 04:00 Richard Spencer vs Judas Maccabeus, https://killstream.libsyn.com/richard-spencer-vs-judas-maccabeus 05:00 Tikkun ha-Olam: The Metamorphosis of a … Continue reading →

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Tikkun ha-Olam: The Metamorphosis of a Concept

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Luke Ford

Gilbert S. Rosenthal writes in 2005: * The notion of tikkun ha-olam—healing, mending, repairing the world, improving society—has become a popular concept these days. Everyone seems to be invoking the term or the concept: it is a shibboleth in both … Continue reading →

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The Study of Judaism: Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2014 book by Aaron W. Hughes: * In 2007 I published a slim and what I hoped would be a provocative volume entitled Situating Islam: The Past and Future of an Academic Discipline. This … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism

Posted on July 6, 2021 by Luke Ford

In my experience, Jewish philosophy and Jewish theology play no role in the lives of 99.9% of Jews (equivalent to the role of jurisprudence in the lives of Americans). It is rare that I recall real Jews (as opposed to … Continue reading →

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Desirable But Dangerous: Rabbis Daughters in the Babylonian Talmud

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Luke Ford

Dvora Weisberg from Hebrew Union College writes: In classical rabbinic literature, women are an anomaly. Rabbinic law sometimes treats women like persons and at other times like chattel.1 Non-legal texts some times characterize women in positive terms and portray individual … Continue reading →

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