“Our recent communal engagements around women and Orthodoxy have taken on something of the aspect of trench warfare”
Our recent communal engagements around women and Orthodoxy have taken on something of the...
Category Archives: Jewish
“It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers of the Mishnah…”
It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers...
“In discussing the use of אני in TL, it is necessary to distinguish between אני אומר used in contradiction, and שאני אומר used to introduce a reason for an opinion”
In discussing the use of אני in TL, it is necessary to distinguish between...
“You may feel genuinely inspired by the trite and over-used. Most aren’t”
Here are some of my favorites Jewish clichés. Don’t hesitate to add yours: “All...
“The Jewish mix of particular and universal is not easy to figure out, for Jews or anyone else”
Up to modernity, Jews and non-Jews lived within boundaries, well defined from within and...
“…for Bannon, and many on the Trumpian right, the crucial political divide in today’s world is between internationalists (who they call “globalists”) and nationalists”
…for Bannon, and many on the Trumpian right, the crucial political divide in today’s...
“There are women who are learned and it is only fitting that they too have a title”
…I still don’t see the objection to female clergy. I am not talking about...
Differences of a famous midrash about Name, Language, and Clothing
Leviticus Rabbah 32:5 (M. Margoliot ed., Jerusalem 1958, vol. 4, p. 747) lists four...
“Sometimes in Tannaitic Literature, the relationship to a particular day appears (when the elements are not connected by relationship to a single man, nor by a common subject) as the essential connective element of a relatively large chapter”
…Sometimes in TL, the relationship to a particular day appears (when the elements are...
“The problem with the Golden Age of American Zionism was that for far too many Jews, support for Israel became a vicarious faith…”
The problem with the Golden Age of American Zionism was that for far too...