“We have been living on yesterday’s fumes for too long”
We have been living on yesterday’s fumes for too long. Old fashioned anti-anti-Semitism, unrealistic Zionism, superficial and, in the end, meaningless congregational […]
Month: February 2015
“An entire generation is being taught that women and girls should not be seen because seeing them can lead to sin”
An entire generation is being taught that women and girls should not be seen because seeing them can lead to sin. Women […]
“The tension between the Hillel and Shammai approaches to conversion still persists today”
The tension between the Hillel and Shammai approaches to conversion still persists today. The debates about conversion policy in Israel and the […]
In the 1990s, “the relative ordinariness of Israel left room for other topics – and spirituality made the most sense”
The mini (and short lived) spiritual explosion… took place in the 90’s, the era of Oslo, of Yitzhak Rabin, of what seemed […]
“…New Atheism tends to simply baptize the opinions of young, educated white men as the obviously rational approach to complicated socio-political problems”
…a persistent problem with the New Atheist movement: Because it is more critical of religion than introspective about its own moral commitments, […]
“…there is no more urgent task for American intellectuals and writers than to think critically about the salience, even the tyranny, of technology in individual and collective life”
Aside from issues of life and death, there is no more urgent task for American intellectuals and writers than to think critically […]
“What managers ask and how they respond during a stay interview will determine the outcome of this important interaction”
The content of the stay interview, however, is only half the battle. How questions are posed and the way in which managers […]
“Like any number of global faiths, New Atheism presumes its framework and considers its truth-claims to be either self-evident or demonstrable by whatever means it already assumes legitimate”
Like any number of global faiths, New Atheism presumes its framework and considers its truth-claims to be either self-evident or demonstrable by […]
“What do we do with the trolls? It is one of the questions of the age…”
What do we do with the trolls? It is one of the questions of the age. There are those who argue that […]
“The new devices do not in themselves authorize a revision of the standards of evidence and argument and style that we championed in the old devices”
Every technology is used before it is completely understood. There is always a lag between an innovation and the apprehension of its […]
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