Monthly Archives: September 2012

Flag at Half Mast (9/11)

Posted on September 11, 2012 by zjb

Flag at half mast at the East Branch rest stop on rt. 17 just short of exit 89 at Fish’s Eddy on the way to Binghamton. Leaving the rest stop I was surprised to run into the New York State … Continue reading →

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Big Data Big Money Speed of Light (High Frequency Trading) (And a Theological Query)

Posted on September 10, 2012 by zjb

I read the Business section of the NYT every once and awhile. Of most interest to me are the articles on technology, business, and business-technology. This one caught my eye in last Sunday’s paper. It’s about “High Frequency Trading,” which was explained here … Continue reading →

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Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, Pharisees (1912)

Posted on September 10, 2012 by zjb

I have loved this little homosocial cabal of guys since the second I laid eyes on them. They are canny and coy. You see them every year at the annual conference of the Association of Jewish Studies over beer in … Continue reading →

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Why So Pessimistic, Steve? (Unhappy Liberal Judaism) (A Conversation)

Posted on September 9, 2012 by zjb

On the drive home back to Syracuse from the Franz Rosenzweig conference, my friend and colleague, let’s call him “Steve,” get to talking about Jewish thought and Jewish culture, and the current state of liberal Judaism. About the latter, Steve … Continue reading →

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Torah Talmud Games (Judaism & Technology)

Posted on September 9, 2012 by zjb

I saw this article a couple weeks back in the Forward, “Torah Games and the Future of Learning” and I think it’s spot on: one because “our” new media environment is saturated by by games and by game-modes of cognition, and two, … Continue reading →

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Alien Abduction (What is “The Star of Redemption”?) (An Open Letter to An Old Friend) (Habonim, Park School, and Academic Life)

Posted on September 9, 2012 by zjb

Dear Mark [Hershkowitz]: Thanks so much for the FB comment earlier this week about my post(s) about “Franz Rosenzweig” at JPP. You were right to call attention to the gibberish about I seem so often to write. Now that I … Continue reading →

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Lower East Side (Religion & Art)

Posted on September 7, 2012 by zjb

Eastern United States Taoist Asscociation @ 16 Spring Street between Bowery and Lafayette. A relic from an older Lower East Side now surrounded by more highend, commercial establishments catering to artsy rich people. The New Museum is right down the … Continue reading →

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Architecture Design Jewish Studies (University of Toronto)

Posted on September 6, 2012 by zjb

    A nice thing about this kind of blog is that when you get bored at a conference and start to wander around, you can take pictures and do and think other things. I took these at the recent … Continue reading →

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“Politics” and “Life” (The Star of Redemption)

Posted on September 6, 2012 by zjb

Just finished watching Bill Clinton present an argument to the American people on national television at a political convention, and am getting back to a little bit of work. It’s the mix of politics, reason, and performance, and it helps … Continue reading →

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Art and Religion

Posted on September 5, 2012 by zjb

ZJB: Andy’s remarks strike me as relating very much to the way religion works –the rendering of shapes, painted and unpainted areas of human consciousness, the clearing away of layers, gestural mark on the surface.

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