“What is it about Rabbi Akiva that caused him to be venerated in a manner that no one else was?”
What is it about Rabbi Akiva that caused him to be venerated in a...
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Branding now “is aggressively self-aware, exaggerated and self-referential to the point of collapsing in on itself”
Branding may have finally reached its Mannerist phase. Where the old-fashioned brand earnestly embraced...
“The rabbis of the Talmud knew the historical truth: post-biblical Judaism, not scripture, is the source for the general prohibition of intermarriage”
The Talmudim are aware that the prohibition of intermarriage is a product of second...
“Rabbinic society was not much affected by intermarriage…”
Rabbinic society was not much affected by intermarriage. The Palestinian Talmud has a rabbi...
“One of the central characteristics of post-biblical Judaism is its prohibition of intermarriage…”
One of the central characteristics of post-biblical Judaism is its prohibition of intermarriage. A...
“Hip-hop has not always been a safe place for Yiddishkeit”
Jews have produced and distributed African-American music for more than a century, and have...
“No other book within the Bible…is as intensely personal as Koheleth”
No other book within the Bible, and few outside of it in world literature,...
Understanding Certain Stories in Rabbinic Literature as “literary constructs which try to convey certain religious, moral, and ideological messages or transmit legal instructions”
Other types of narratives have also been identified within rabbinic sources. At one end...
“Chareidi Yeshivish Hebrew…evolved after the Holocaust”
Mention must…be made of another new dialect that came about in the twentieth century:...
“To feed the hunger for knowledge that exists among American Jews, we need education that doesn’t talk down to people or make them feel like children”
Today’s Jews, he said, are better educated in general education, which...