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Spinoza in ShtreimelsTuesday, September 4, 2012 by Carlos Fraenkel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Philosophy professor Carlos Fraenkel wrote that “the cultural relativism that often underlies Western multicultural agendas [is] a much greater obstacle to a culture of debate than religion.” Today, in an exclusive preview from the Jewish Review of Books, Fraenkel relates how his theory fared among a group of Hasidim.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by George Dvorsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Pregnancy is barbaric,” wrote Shulamith Firestone (italics hers, indignation ours). But she was as much da Vinci as de Beauvoir, predicting artificial wombs, donor-sperm banks, even computer schooling. Tales from Tiberias
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by Aviva Bar-Am and Shmuel Bar-Am | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Now,” said the rabbi, “Go home and tell your husband you spat in my face seven times!”Amis on Evil, Amis on Levi
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by Ron Rosenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Until recently the problem of understanding Hitler had bedeviled Martin Amis. Then he read a passage of Primo Levi’s. “Hora to an Exiled Girl”
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by Aaron Kalman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A long-lost Hannah Szenes poem comes to light.Rabbinical School Encounters
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by Matt Abelson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“My willingness to criticize the Palestinians, in general, and their political leadership, specifically, was not mainstream.” A Conservative rabbi-in-training responds to Elliot Jager, and to his peers.