“The surreal juxtaposition is what gives many soldiers trouble adjusting back to civilian life”
One day you’re in a sniper hole with your crosshairs on a man, the next you’re at home seeing things like that in movies and trying to decide what to have for lunch. The surreal juxtaposition is what gives many soldiers trouble adjusting back to civilian life. The army, which has become your entire world, […] continued…Koheleth’s The very strangeness…in its literary and religious context in the Bible is part of its fascination”
The very strangeness of the work in its literary and religious context in the Bible is part of its fascination. The author’s mood of doubt and pessimism is one into which many reflective persons fall from time to time, and in which not a few of the more skeptical remain. At the same time, there […] continued…“American culture rides forward on stories about sudden fame and bold ascent…TED is a display case for such stories”
American culture rides forward on stories about sudden fame and bold ascent – the singer who invents a new style of celebrity, the unknown actor rising with a quirky TV show, the kid who shapes a generation’s online habits from his dorm room. TED is a display case for such stories and, increasingly, the subject […] continued…“the best way to reach Jews who do not feel at home in Judaism is to do compelling Jewish work in public”
I have always believed that the best way to reach Jews who do not feel at home in Judaism is to do compelling Jewish work in public: to contextualize Judaism within the marketplace of ideas; to break down tired, old images of Judaism and raise up new, vibrant ones. Ellen Bernstein, “The Spiritual Advisor Students […] continued…