Monthly Archives: February 2014

Gal Cohen, Landscape 2013

Posted on February 13, 2014 by zjb

Gal Cohen lives and works in Tel-Aviv-Yaffo. A lot of her paintings figure dogs, animals, and young children, pretty much all demented. The nudes are more languid. I really like this landscape.  Here’s her website    

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Lithuanian Synagogue Mural Burlington Vermont (Diaspora Accidental)

Posted on February 13, 2014 by zjb

This story ran in the NYT a couple weeks back about a synagogue mural created in 1910 at Chai Adam congregation in Burlington Vermont. My interest was drawn in part because my colleague Samuel Gruber here at SU is involved … Continue reading →

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New York (Historical) Religion (Mosque & Church in Harlem) (116th St.)

Posted on February 12, 2014 by zjb

Big and yellow, bulbous green dome or dirty white ornately carved and Venetian, the public façades of religion in Harlem call out for attention, both to the physical sites themselves and to the history they embody. Both buildings are down … Continue reading →

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Visiting Assistant Professorship Modern Religious Thought

Posted on February 11, 2014 by zjb

University of Pittsburgh, Religious Studies Visiting Assistant Professor Institution Type: College / University Location: Pennsylvania, United States Position: Assistant Professor The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor in the area of philosophy of … Continue reading →

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Science – Replication – Philosophy – Ouija

Posted on February 11, 2014 by zjb

Anyone who knows better than I do, please feel free to tell me that I don’t understand that about which I’m trying to talk. But I’ll ask, naively. At what point does science stop being scientific, i.e. based on experiments … Continue reading →

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An (American) Philosophy (In the Car) With (John Dewey & Mel Scult)

Posted on February 10, 2014 by zjb

One last little bit from Mel Scult’s The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan. This one is about pragmatist philosopher John Dewey. “Experience” is “like driving a car. When we drive, there is a constant interaction with our envirponment … Continue reading →

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An (American) Jewish Philosophy (Mordecai Kaplan) (Mel Scult)

Posted on February 10, 2014 by zjb

This will be my final post about Mordecai Kaplan and Mel Scult’s book The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan. My last post about Kaplan was critical, but I wanted to end these reflections on a more upbeat and … Continue reading →

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How We Eat (Pig)

Posted on February 9, 2014 by zjb

Chief Andrew Fairlie bones a pig’s head. To my my vegetarian friends, please don’t open if you don’t like what you’ll see, but this story and photo about how we eat what caught my eye at the Guardian. “Fairlie cooked us … Continue reading →

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“Free/Fuck Palestine” Echo Chamber

Posted on February 9, 2014 by zjb

No, it’s not fair to put some blame on the anti-Israel anti-Zionism folk for the recent vandalism at the Workman’s Circle in Los Angeles. Discourse is never “fair.” A discourse is a grouping of performative statements and acts over which … Continue reading →

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George Washington Bridge Illuminated Geometrics

Posted on February 8, 2014 by zjb

On my way back from Syracuse the other week. Special for the Superbowl, the towers of the George Washington Bridge were illuminated in bright white light. High intensity light shoots through the grid of the steel girding, encased by surrounding … Continue reading →

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