- Zachary Braiterman is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. His specialization is modern Jewish thought and philosophical aesthetics. Facebook | Twitter | Academia.edu.
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Monthly Archives: August 2014
New York State Fair (2014)
The Great New York State Fair is a different kind of place. I am sure I was the only one there who ever heard of Steven Salaita. As you might have noted last year, I’m posted before, we’re there pretty much … Continue reading
Cartoonish Steven Salaita Tweets (Lose-Lose Zero-Sum)
Apart from the BDS movement, which has acquired for itself a martyr, there are no obvious“winners” in the Steven Salaita dust-up at UIUC. It’s a strictly lose-lose deal. The offending tweets are just too stupid in character to justify the … Continue reading
Steven Salaita, Public Critique, and Academic Freedom
The following paragraphs represent a composite correspondence taken from two FB exchanges with two different colleagues who are behind Steven Salaita in the collision at UIUC. The discussion touches upon two or three things regarding the poisoned politics of Israel … Continue reading
Steven Salaita (Uncivil Speech, Obnoxious Speech, Abusive Speech)
Regarding the matter of Steven Salaita, I’ll agree that UIUC should have honored the contract with Steven Salaita and “welcome” him to campus, if only for the contractual reasons as argued by many faculty colleagues and friends. But the case is far … Continue reading
Artificial Mountain Rock (Zhan Wang)
A couple of weeks back, I ran across these these two Fake Mountain Rocks enclosed in the glass atrium space at Madison Avenue. By Zhan Wang, they riff off the traditional, decorative rocks placed in scholars’ gardens. An excellent article, … Continue reading
War Memorial (Carrol Park, Brooklyn)
Maybe I’m getting older, but I don’t find war memorials like this one in Carrol Park, Brooklyn jingoistic. Erected in 1921, now in the middle of a playground and public space, it has a common-man kind of feel. Local, it’s … Continue reading
Jewish Philosophy New York City Brisket
The good news is that it may just be the case that there’s no need to go to Texas for Texas brisket. You can get it here and maybe even better in New York City, with more creative and lighter … Continue reading
Palestine & The Question of Israel
In arguments about Israel, Palestine, the occupation, and the Palestinian Nakba and right of return little attention goes to assessing in a critical way assumptions about Jews, Judaism, and Jewish history that govern “the Palestinian perspective. While I think these … Continue reading
No “Root Cause” to the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Rhizome)
What’s at the root of the Israel-Palestinian conflict? When people on the left want to talk about Gaza or the larger Israel-Palestine conflict they often say that you can’t solve this or that aspect of the problem, this or that … Continue reading
Americana (Christian New Jersey Turnpike Toxic)
I was at the Woodrow Wilson rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike where I took these pictures, pretty far up north. I like the the rest stops named after native born American icons, like Wilson, and Walt Whitman, Vince Lombard, … Continue reading
