“Death is no longer just a transparent formula; it has been hybridized with something worse: Business strategy”
Amid rapid shifts in the media-buying public’s preferences, comic-book adaptations have proved incredibly lucrative...
Monthly Archives: May 2014
“Koheleth’s unconventional use of a religious vocabulary and his frequent citation of proverbial lore for his own special purposes are among the most unique elements of his style”
Koheleth’s unconventional use of a religious vocabulary and his frequent citation of proverbial lore for his...
“All sides have reasons to cling to the Two-State illusion”
All sides have reasons to cling to this illusion. The Palestinian Authority needs its...
“It is…in wisdom literature that quotations play the most fundamental role…”
It is…in wisdom literature that quotations play the most fundamental role. Here, there is...
“Efficiency, it seems, is overrated”
In a recent study, we recruited people on their way into a busy, urban...
“it can be stated fairly and accurately that the law itself, without intention to do so, has created the circumstances that enable” agunot cases “to occur”
Each time we hear of yet another heart-wrenching and infuriating agunah story, we tend...
Instead of Arguing About the Pew Survey, ask “how and where can Jewish experiences make the greatest possible contribution”
The question should not be which interpretations of the survey are correct. Instead, we...
The Book of Kohelet is “best described as a cahier or notebook, into which the author jotted down his reflections…”
…it is clear that the Book of Koheleth is not a debate, a dialogue,...
Kohelet “was struggling to use Hebrew or quasi-philosophic purposes, a use to which the language had not previously been applied”
The impact of Aramaic upon the syntax and vocabulary has already been discussed, while...
“as much as we are stymied by halachah in these awful agunah situations, we are thankful to halachah for having created the marriages and the families that so many of us enjoy”
There are indeed any number of ways that a couple and a rabbi can...