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Category Archives: Judaism
What Is Authentic Judaism? (7-19-21)
00:00 Lipton Matthews discusses gender quotas, Africa, and IQ with Dooovid, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W42iIA0pKrI 03:00 Luke’s views on authentic Judaism 08:00 Dooovid’s views on authentic Judaism 24:00 David Cole Stein on blacks & Jews, https://www.takimag.com/article/the-dysgenic-duo/ 38:00 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Understanding Cognitive … Continue reading
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The Contrasting Judaisms Of Franz Rosenzweig and Ron Jeremy
How did the essentialist discourse of the late German philosopher Franz Rosenzweig compare with the more contingent but still ultimately essentialist problematic hegemonic discourse of Ron Jeremy? How and why do these two intellectuals attempt to reify the Jewish essence?
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Tikkun Olam And Other Great Jewish Ideas (7-12-21)
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
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
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
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
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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Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought
Peter E. Gordon reviews this 2003 book by UCLA professor David N. Myers: * Historicism, as Meinecke and Troeltsch meant it, was born as a specifically German romantic reaction against the Enlightenment’s idea of a single, universal human nature. The … Continue reading
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Are Jews Waiting For The Messiah?
Marc B. Shapiro writes: In response to R. Bergman’s point, about the need to actively wait for the Messiah, R. Steinman replies that no one fulfills this, namely, no one is really waiting for the Messiah. My understanding of what … Continue reading
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Tradition in Transition: Orthodoxy, Halakhah, and the Boundaries of Modern Jewish Identity
Marc B. Shapiro writes circa 1992: Hildesheimer came down firmly on the side of Orthodoxy. In his mind, Frankel, Graetz, and other professors at Breslau were heretics. Not only was Frankel a meshumad—which made him even worse than an apikores—but … Continue reading
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