Monthly Archives: December 2015

Working Group on Jewish Difference (AJS 2015 Preview)

Posted on December 8, 2015 by zjb

Chaya Halberstam will be chairing the Working Group on Jewish Difference at the AJS Conference on Sunday at 1:30pm in the Riverway room (5th floor). Here’s a link the conference convened by the group last May.    

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Buber & Rosenzweig (AJS 2015 Preview)

Posted on December 8, 2015 by zjb

Just a little preview, but there are only two papers on Levinas and no papers devoted to Franz Rosenzweig in the conference program for the upcoming AJS conference. But there’s a bunch of Buber. What with major conferences in New … Continue reading →

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Sticking Together (Sunni Islam and Jamā`a Judaism)

Posted on December 7, 2015 by zjb

  Neither impressive nor interesting is Patricia Crone’s characterization of the Sunni political model as “Judaic,” i.e. this notion that in Sunni Islam and in Judaism appeals to universal truth are “used” to sanctify a particular social-political form on the … Continue reading →

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Chanukah Aus der Synagoge

Posted on December 6, 2015 by zjb

Lithograph Illustration by Wilhelm Thielmann Aus der Synagoge: nach der Natur gezeichnet by Wilhelm Theilmann, Frankfurt a. M.: Verlag von Heinrich Keller, 1900 Here from the inimitable Sam Gruber and “The Life of the Synagogue,”a beautiful website dedicated to its … Continue reading →

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pandas and guns

Posted on December 6, 2015 by zjb

Source: pandas and guns

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Intersections (Jewish, Muslim, Arab, Israeli)

Posted on December 6, 2015 by zjb

Nicolas Kristof in this  week’s New York Times, which you can read here, writes about a teenager escaping ISIS controlled territory. The unexpected shout-out to an Israeli NGO offering assistance to refugees landing in Lesbos makes a strong point about … Continue reading →

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New York Times Guns Editorial

Posted on December 5, 2015 by zjb

“Morality” or “politics”? It’s important to get the concept right. So while it was bracing to see the New York Times put up on the front page an editorial against the gun pandemic in the United States, they nonetheless got … Continue reading →

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Yossi Sarid z”l

Posted on December 4, 2015 by zjb

“Along the years, and with the approval of Menachem Begin, I made a name for myself as the most gifted speaker in parliament. When I would rise to the podium to speak as one of the younger MKs those days, … Continue reading →

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King Hezekiah Iconic Seal Impression

Posted on December 3, 2015 by zjb

On the recent news about the discovery of an ancient seal naming King Hezekiah found near the south wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This king is mentioned by the Bible (II Chronicles 31) as one of the good … Continue reading →

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National Women’s Studies Association BDS (Jewish Invisibility & Anti-Semitism)

Posted on December 2, 2015 by zjb

Does intersectional analysis mean that “Zionists” are the intersection of everything? Yes, Israel and Palestine is a feminist issue to which one might have hoped that feminist scholarship and activism will continue to contribute important critical and constructive resources. But … Continue reading →

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