It should be remembered that recycling is not a modern Western concept, but is deeply rooted in human behaviour and economic practice and is the likely explanation for the relative scarcity of metal finds at[…]
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Month: October 2018
Cultivated Crops during the Time of the Babylonian Talmud
As in earlier periods, the staple crops were wheat, barley and dates. A daily grain market is referred to at Nehardea (Avodah Zarah 38b) and the twin towns of Hini and Shili, somewhere near Sura,[…]
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“The way to rectify corrupt sexual mores is by replacing them with a healthy code of sexuality, not by advocating asexuality”
The way to rectify corrupt sexual mores is by replacing them with a healthy code of sexuality, not by advocating asexuality. Classical tzniut is too often predicated on the negation of people’s sexuality, creating a[…]
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Modern Orthodoxy’s “future will likely be as ambiguous and complicated as its complex, tension-filled philosophy”
Despite Rabbi Lamm’s eloquent and intellectually sophisticated elucidations of the Modern Orthodox world view, Modern Orthodoxy has failed to attract as many adherents as ultra-Orthodoxy—the American ultra-Orthodox population is currently twice as large as (and[…]
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“Trump’s assault on the premises of democracy is not only unique in modern American history but unique in the annals of modern liberal democracy”
Trump’s assault on the premises of democracy is not only unique in modern American history but unique in the annals of modern liberal democracy. No duly elected leader of any mature democratic state has gone[…]
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