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- His Head, His legs, Your legs, Your head (Rashi Song of Songs)
- (Rashi Song of Songs) Israel is the Mother of God and Sister of Angels
- Trans-Torah (Dubbs Weinblatt)
- Slaves at the Passover Seder (2 Images)
- (One Little Goat) Chad Gadya (El Lissitzy)
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- Religion Politics Grift
- (Israel) Has Changed Its Face (Judaism)
- (Zombies) Animated Jewish Philosophers
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- (The Capitol Building) So Much American Civil Religion & The Problem of Evil
- Video From Mars
- Rush Limbaugh at Yeshiva Bubble
- Teaching the Holocaust (Jewish Difference)
- (Un/Civil Religion) The U.S. Capitol Is An Animal Being
- (Jacob Lawrence) Black Americans & the American Revolution (Struggle)
- (Rich Crimson Purple) The Color of Power in the Bible (אַרְגָּמָן)
- Uncivil Religion (Haredi) (Coronavirus)
- National Jewish Book Award Winners (2020)
- Online Holocaust Memorialization Platforms & Post-Holocaust Culture
- Bernie
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- (Birthday) JPP is 9 Years Old (2020)
- (Jewish) Prayer (Gentile Kings and Democratic Country)
- Zachary Taylor (Trump Insurrection) (2021)
- “What is the Mishnah?” an International Zoom Workshop Sponsored by Harvard University
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- God in the Poetics of Space (Bachelard)
- (Jewish Law) The Tikvah Fund = The Conservative U.S. Group Trying to Transform Israel’s Justice System
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Jewish/Deleuze
I’m reading for and sitting in on Gail Hamner’s Deleuze/Foucault seminar in the department of Religion at Syracuse University. She began the course with a film about Deleuzian philosophy. The film was full of orthodox Deleuzianism (blah, blah flux, multiplicity, … Continue reading
Mezuzah: Aesthetics and Politics
(Uta Barth, Ground #38 [1994]) (http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artist.php?art_name=Uta%20Barth) I started working on this post, writing about the first two images in high aesthetic dudgeon. Then I got stuck on a political problem. Trying to sort this out, I decided to flip the … Continue reading
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Moving between places
Is this what it looks like to think like an electron? I spend an awful amount of time moving through far-placed places. With the start of the semester, my commute to Syracuse resumes. I’ve been reading Brian Greene’s Elegant … Continue reading
Ephemera?
I’m wondering what is the place of ephemera at Jewish Philosophy Place. I’m thinking of picture-sharing in particular. I would like to think that they function as otherwise meaningless visual building blocks in a conception of place. They bear no clear … Continue reading
Religion & (Popular) Science
Kandinsky, Around the Circle (1940) I spent a good part of winter break reading up on popular science. This to me is terra incognita. There were four motives to do so. [1] Edith Wyschogrod told me many years ago … Continue reading
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Religion/Judaism
So far in a “Jewish philosophy place” there’s been almost nothing about Judaism. This may in part be serendipitous, relating to what I happen to be thinking about at this particular moment. Certainly, it’s not what I’m reading right … Continue reading
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New York City Green Walk (again)
New York City Green-Walk (for my brother, Jared at Tokyo Greenspace —http://tokyogreenspace.com) You can walk in the woods for about an hour in the city. This walk in Riverside Park is one of my favorites. I particularly like the … Continue reading
Portraits-Journals-Blogs: More on Renaissance Portraits at the Met
One of the things explained by the exhibit organizers: portraits were compared by them to journals, a communication to posterity from those who could afford the cost. To trace a line backwards allows this surmise: –blogs are like journals –blogs … Continue reading
Currently reading
Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff Peter Sloterdisk, Spheres, vol. 1: Bubbles: Microspherology Daniel Heller-Roazen, Echolalias: On the … Continue reading
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