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We live in an age of radical autonomy and permeable social boundaries. Ever since...Monthly Archives: June 2014
“…well over half of those we think of as making up American Jewry are not part of the Jewish future”
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My way of expressing the current state of affairs is that well over half...Each of the three depth languages of Judaism “presents a very different Jewish response to the modern world”
The need to find the depth languages of Judaism forces us to face the...
“A vibrant Jewish future that speaks three different languages requires not superficial unity, but rather vibrant connectors”
A vibrant Jewish future that speaks three different languages requires such connectors, people fluent...
“When identity can be merely symbolic and momentary, identity becomes a poor substitute for lived experience”
n the post-modern world, when identity can be merely symbolic and momentary, identity becomes...
The “concept of ‘Jewish identity’ seems to have entered the Jewish communal vocabulary sometime after World War II”
he concept of “Jewish identity”…seems to have entered the Jewish communal vocabulary sometime after...
“Conflict shouldn’t be taboo”
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…in our current company, when people see conflict, they address it, talk about it,...The Book of Kohelet is “primarily a philosophical work, rather than a book of religion”
What is before us here is primarily a philosophical work, rather than a book...
A “reason for the acceptance of Qoheleth was the unquestionable intellectual and literary quality of the book, to say nothing of its ethical wisdom…”
The reasons which led to the admission and retention of Qoheleth-Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew...
Kohelet’s “style reflects the elements both of similarity and of difference which mark his relationship to his contemporaries”
Koheleth is the product of Hebrew life and thought and must be viewed against...