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Category Archives: Noah Feldman
The Nostramus Kid
I loved this 1993 movie about growing up Adventist in Australia. John Gowlett posts to my YT comments: Although I was brought up in The Salvation Army, which makes an appearance in the finals scenes of The Nostradamus Kid, as … Continue reading
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‘Noah Feldman May Be Very Smart, But He Isn’t Very Wise’
Marc B. Shapiro writes: Professor Isadore Twersky once mentioned in class that although this book’s title should have mentioned Maimonides, in 1929 Harvard University Press would not publish a book with such a title. In this regard, he also called … Continue reading
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The Noah Feldman Debate Just Won’t Die
Izzy Grinspan writes: Last Thursday night, NYU hosted a debate between Birthright Israel founder Michael Steinhardt, rabbi and TV personality Shmuley Boteach, and law professor Noah Feldman on the question “Are Jews different?” But as commenter agenius put it over … Continue reading
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The Orthodox Paradox
From The Jewish Press’s editorial in this week’s issue: In early 1992, reacting to alarming statistics on the occurrence of intermarriage (52% as compared to 9% in 1965), a splinter group of rabbis in the Rabbinical Council of America, who … Continue reading
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The Orthodox Paradox
Jonathan Rosenblum writes: …Feldman has performed one valuable service: His piece serves as a warning against the easy assumption that the best in secular learning can be readily reconciled with passionate Torah study. When equal emphasis is placed on the … Continue reading
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The Orthodox Paradox
Joey Kurtzman writes for Jewcy: At the 1998 reunion of Noah Feldman’s Maimonides yeshiva class, no one could possibly have imagined that a few group photographs–all wide Jewy smiles and shapeless sorta-Orthodox outfits–would spark a seat-ripping public debate almost a … Continue reading
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The Scandal Of Jewish Particularity
Hillel Halkin writes in the New York Sun: Judaism is a religion with a universalist and a particularist side that do not harmonize easily with one another, and it is alone among the world’s great monotheistic religions in having such … Continue reading
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OU: Sack Feldman now that he’s admitted photo wasn’t doctored
From the JTA: The Orthodox Union called on the New York Times Magazine to sack contributing editor Noah Feldman after he admitted that he and his Korean-American girlfriend may not have been cropped from a photo taken at his Orthodox … Continue reading
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Feldman’s Complaint
From The Jewish Press editorial: Mr. Feldman’s presumption is breathtaking. He offers dubious instant analyses of Jewish law and history in support of what seems to be his underlying premise that normative Judaism is far more an uncertain and elusive … Continue reading
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Feldman Article Raises Questions Of Journalistic Standards
Ralph Lieberman writes: Initially, Professor Noah Feldman’s “Orthodox Paradox,” an article appearing in the July 22 issue of The New York Times Magazine, may seem entertaining. But on further reading, a very disturbing message emerges – a message that calls … Continue reading
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