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Monthly Archives: April 2017
‘Armenians associated with Amalekites’
From Wikipedia: This ascription of Armenians is seen in the context of indifference, which was widely criticized by the Israeli historian Ya’ir Oron in his book The Banality of Indifference that dealt with the inaction of overall members of the … Continue reading
David Brooks Marries His Former Researcher Today
Has he formally converted to Christianity yet? Source Source Registry Washington Post: New York Times columnist David Brooks weds his former researcher Anne Snyder Knot, tied: New York Times columnist David Brooks wed Anne Snyder, his former research assistant, on … Continue reading
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The Market for Gedolim: A Tale of Supply and Demand
Chaim Saiman writes: Gadolhood is less about the individual erudition of a given rabbi and more about a social fact, reflecting the experience of a community bound by a concrete conception of Torah, halakha, and rabbinic authority. This sense of … Continue reading
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Jerome Yehuda Gellman: This Was From God: A Contemporary Theology of Torah and History
Opening graphs: Increasingly, well-informed traditional Jews may find themselves distrustful of the reliability of Torah as history because of the conclusions of scholarly research from natural science, history, linguistics, Bible criticism and archaeology. And, they may not be swayed by … Continue reading
Can A Jew Enter A Church?
R. Shlomo Riskin wrote: Question: Am I allowed to attend my friend’s wedding in a church? Are Jews allowed to enter churches at all? Answer: Evangelical churches do not have icons or statues and it is certainly permissible to enter … Continue reading
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