Monthly Archives: January 2017

(What Politics Looks Like) Cigar (Netanyahu)

Posted on January 10, 2017 by zjb

(This is what politics looks like)

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged | 2 Comments

Not-Messianic (Jewish History)

Posted on January 9, 2017 by zjb

Working on a chapter revolving on messianism (or rather non- or anti-messianism) as a topos of “philosophical Talmud,” I’m embarrassed to say that I’m coming late to Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish History (1992). Edited by … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Demolition (Israel Destroys Homes in Occupied Territories)

Posted on January 7, 2017 by zjb

Sheep grazing in the Palestinian village of Khirbet Tana, where the IDF demolished 49 structures on January 3, 2017. In the  first week of 2017, Israel demolishes homes of 151 Palestinians, almost four times last year’s average. The IDF’s Civil … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | 1 Comment

Rethinking Jewish Messianism

Posted on January 6, 2017 by zjb

What is one to conclude about Jewish messianism on the basis of Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism? An edited volume, the chapters are based on the proceedings from a working group run out of the Tikvah Fund over a … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Striped Church (Harlem)

Posted on January 5, 2017 by zjb

The techno-color lines of the Greater Refuge Temple stand out on the corner of Adam Clayton Powell and 124th Street. It is also known as the “Mother Church” (Headquarters) of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ. If I’m getting … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Affect, Bodies, Virtue Ethics (Jonathan Schofer)

Posted on January 5, 2017 by zjb

[[Andres Serrano, The Morgue (Jane Doe Killed by Police), 1991]] Jonathan Schofer’s Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics is a uniquely beautiful and affecting book of Jewish philosophical meditation. The particular emphasis of the book is … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

(Dead People Cannot Move) Hebron Shooting

Posted on January 4, 2017 by zjb

I’ve put in italics the strangest part of the strangest part of the Judges’ conclusion regarding the manslaughter conviction delivered without a reasonable doubt by a Tel Aviv military court in the trial of Sergeant Elor Azaria. It has to do … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged | 4 Comments

Huston Smith (LSD & Religion)

Posted on January 2, 2017 by zjb

Is there a future for religion without it? Confirming a long held suspicion of mine about the impact of LSD on the emergence of religion/spirituality in the postwar period in the United States is the sheer amount of attention given … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , | 4 Comments

President Donald Trump’s Urinary Tract Infection (Eli Valley)

Posted on January 1, 2017 by zjb

(Eli Valley, January 14, 2016) I’ve resolved this year not to post anything negative on social media. Happy 20017 to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly. Love! This is the … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Leave a comment