How Not to Study Judaism, Examples and Counter-Examples, Volume One: Parables, Rabbinic Narratives, Rabbis' Biographies, Rabbis' Disputes (Studies in Judaism)
FailedMessiah.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Should government sponsored or government regulated healthcare charge sick people and old people more than young healthy people? On sick list: Elderly and the ill pay more under GOP health care reform bill BY MICHAEL MCAULIFF • New York Daily...
The Recliner Commentaries (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
As I listen to the talking heads in the media who are practically beside themselves trying to come up with a politically correct explanation for the Fort Hood shooting it becomes more and more painfully clear that they really don't get it! In the Middle East Quarterly , Raymound Ibrahim asks, " Are Judaism and Christianity as violent as Islam? " Although this article was written before the...
Sustainability, Equity, Development (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Pope Benedict XVI at Auschwitz) Once a Catholic priest, author James Carroll's faith in authority was broken by the Vietnam War. He left the church and began a rigorous study of the history of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, distinguishing an extraordinary story that deepens the understanding of the forces that made the seeming incomprehensible Holocaust comprehensible. (Constantine)...
PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | 52 minutes ago
THE UCL ARAMAIC INCANTATION BOWL CONTROVERSY is back in the news: UK scholars linked to 'stolen' bowls of Babylon Suppressed report reveals archaeological treasures were dug up after Gulf war * Vanessa Thorpe and James Doeser * The Observer, Sunday 8 November 2009 * Article history A secret report on the chequered history of priceless Aramaic bowls loaned to a leading university has exposed an apparent...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gershom Gorenberg, has an article in The American Prospect. Gershom has specialized in messianic Zionism. His Wikipedia entry defines him as "an American-born Israeli historian, journalist and blogger, specializing in Middle Eastern politics and the interaction of religion and politics" and "a left-wing, skeptical Orthodox Zionist Jew". The article, as others of his usual writings,...
theway2k’s blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Have you heard or read from a Muslim, a Muslim apologist or a kafir who has befriended a Muslim a statement similar to this: “Islam is no different than Christianity or Judaism. They both have bloodshed – one in the Quran and the other in the ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
taxmanblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ft. Hood shooter douche is a product of a politically correct military. Orlando shooter douche is a product of culture where we don't keep score of kids soccer games. These guys have never related to failure until it's a big one. And now we're surprised that he freaked? I expect an invitation to CNN as an expert on psycho shootings any moment now. By the way, for the record, if I have to hear that...
PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE RAPHAEL GOLB case is covered in the New York Times : 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls, Internet-Era Crime By JIM DWYER Published: November 6, 2009 Early one morning in March, the law banged on the door of an apartment on Thompson Street in Greenwich Village. Investigators had a warrant to arrest Raphael Haim Golb and seize his computer. He was caught red-handed. Mr. Golb is, or was, a guerrilla fighter in...
PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
HOW TO TALK LIKE AN INTELLECTUAL. The epistemology of praxis functions as the conceptual frame for the construction of linguistic transparency. (Via David Meadows on Facebook.)
The Seeker (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Rabbi Adam Chalom Dean of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism Allahu Akbar, Gott mit uns – we’ve heard it before, and the lesson is still the same: “you don’t count the dead/When God’s on your side….you never ask...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
David Flusfeder's Aunt Anne suddenly took up painting in her 50s and he promised to look after her pictures if she became too frail. That time has come, but he didn't expect quite so many ... About 35 years ago, a day or two after her mother died, my aunt, Anne, was impelled to draw a picture. She didn't know what she was about to draw; the pencil she was holding just moved as if independent of any...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Regarding the ongoing discussion of Islam's role in terrorists' justification of their actions in general and Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's self-justification in particular, there's a tendency among the government, academics, and the media to engage in religious equivalency and suggest that Islamic extremism is really no different than Jewish and Christian extremism. To counter such notions, Raymond Ibrahim's...
Planck's Constant (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Muslims would like infidels to accept two mutually exclusive notions: one, that Islam is a sister religion to Christianity and Judaism because the Quran is based on the Torah and the Gospels; and two, that the Torah and the Gospels that exist today are corruptions of the original holy texts.
Rightward Leaning (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In the wake of such a horribly evil event at Fort Hood, I want to make sure I measure my words carefully. I must admit that my emotions are running pretty high right now, and I might say something I didn't think through beforehand. Having said that, here is my measured response. Islam is incompatible with peace, justice and democracy, and is therefore incompatible with peace loving people across the...
Euangelion (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Note this recent article A. Andrew Das, "Paul and Works of Obedience in Second Temple Judaism: Romans 4:4-5 as 'New Perspective' Case Study," CBQ 71.4 (2009): 795-812. In this piece Das seeks a middle ground on the NPP debate (and the angels cried Hallelujah!) noting that some erroneously miss perspectives about God's empowering grace in Judaism, while others oddly miss the many demands for...
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