Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in JBC?, Judaism, orthoparadoxy, praxis conversation on 24 February 2008 - 19 אדר א' 5768
I met with a Rabbi on Thursday who made it quite clear that conversion, per se, isn’t necessary for a Gentile. Unlike the Christians and the Muslims, the Jews don’t have sense of “evangelism”. We had a nice conversation and he suggested I read a book - now out of print - which [...]
Posted in Judaism, church geekery on 20 February 2008 - 15 אדר א' 5768
The Jewish Chronicle presents an interesting essay by Nathan Jeffay on the idea of “Judeo-Christian”. It is introduced in the context of the Vatican’s recent revision of the prayer for the Jews but it goes quite a bit further.
Skip to the fourth paragraph and go from there.
The fact is that the desire [...]
Posted in Judaism, Teh Gay, review on 16 February 2008 - 11 אדר א' 5768
(A review of Rabbi Steven Greenberg’s Wrestling with God and Men: homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition)
In a recent post, at his Po-Mo Muse, A.J. Stitch shared this passage from his reading of Elie Wiesel’s book Night
After the day I saw him [the rabbi] often. He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed [...]
Posted in Judaism on 15 February 2008 - 10 אדר א' 5768
(Trivia: source for post title?)
Ha’Aretz presents an interesting article We don’t need another… Messiah. Focusing on Jewish Messianism over the last 22 centuries or so, the article has this crucial quote in the middle:
By the arrival of the First century of the Common Era, belief in the messiah had become a major pillar of [...]
Posted in Judaism, jocularity on 14 February 2008 - 9 אדר א' 5768
I’m late to the party… but I like this
Posted in Judaism, Progressive, politics on 14 February 2008 - 9 אדר א' 5768
Rabbi Michael Learner points out Obama’s Jewish Problem:
Obama is a spiritual progressive. He believes that human beings are equally valuable whether they are white or black, American or Asian or African or European. Apply that to the Middle East and you get policy inclinations very different from those which have been insisted upon by [...]
Posted in Buffalo, Judaism, consumer, emergent on 12 February 2008 - 7 אדר א' 5768
On Monday, the New York Times‘ Andrew Revkin blogged the end of the 1950s - or at least he blogged a movie preview about the topic: The End of Suburbia
Revkin promises to blog attempts to “uninvent” Suburbia. The movies to which he links, which are now on my “must see” list, seem very clear about [...]
Posted in Judaism, orthoparadoxy on 12 February 2008 - 7 אדר א' 5768
In what seems to be the first of a series, or, perhaps, related to a class, Rabbi Menachem Creditor posts some links (to his work and others) regarding Living a Mythic Life 1: Mythic Time. From that post, he linked to an essay by Rabbi Neil Gillman, professor of Jewish Philosophy at Jewish Theological [...]
Posted in Judaism, other geekery on 8 February 2008 - 3 אדר א' 5768
I watched Elizabeth: The Golden Age, last night. And had odd thoughts about B16 and his fixation on keeping Europe Christian. But while I was watching the movie I wondered about Elizabeth I’s relation to the Jews among her people: there’s not a lot of good news.
Of course, one aspect of the English-Spanish [...]
Posted in Judaism, emergent on 8 February 2008 - 3 אדר א' 5768
This sermon, by a Graduating Senior at Jewish Theological Seminary, uses the iPhone as a prop. This is the coolest, most cutting edge piece of technology in the world.
We are living in a time, in a world, where we have a burning bush of knowledge in the palm of our hand and yet, we [...]
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