Monthly Archives: March 2019

(Leviticus 11) Kashrus (Hertz Pentateuch)

Posted on March 31, 2019 by zjb

The discussion about the dietary laws in the Hertz Pentateuch commentary has a few interesting things about it. There is the sociological assertion that kashrut has proved historically to be “an important factor in the preservation of the Jewish race.” … Continue reading →

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(Rudolph Lecture) The Navel of the Dream: Freud’s Jewish Languages (Naomi Seidman) (Syracuse)

Posted on March 31, 2019 by zjb
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Pragmatism & Jewish Thought Workshop (Yale)

Posted on March 31, 2019 by zjb

Pragmatism and Jewish Thought Workshop at Yale University April 7-8, 2019 Organized by Nadav Berman S. and Paul Franks Sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program, Yale University Sunday, April 7 10:30 Gathering, light refreshments 11:00 | Introduction – Paul Franks … Continue reading →

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Shia Islam & Judaism (Conference)

Posted on March 28, 2019 by zjb

  Muslim-Jewish Encounters: Shia Islam and Judaism Inaugural Conference of the Muslim-Jewish Relations Initiative Florida International University / University of Bamberg Organized by Ezra Tzfadya, M.A. (Bamberg) and Dr. Iqbal Akhtar (FIU) Day 1: April 10th 4:00-6:30: Panel 1: Conceiving … Continue reading →

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(Uneven Interdependent) Lay & Rabbinic Authority (Jacob Katz)

Posted on March 27, 2019 by zjb

An important point of history for Jewish philosophers interested in law, Halakha, and rabbinic authority, who pine for times when Jewish culture was corporate in character, and also for scholars of religion who have bought into the post-secular mantra that … Continue reading →

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(Hasidism) A Political Community? A Religious Community?

Posted on March 26, 2019 by zjb

Thinking about the importance of politics and the figure of community in Spinoza and Mendelssohn, and thinking out loud about Hasidism. Asking you the reader if you think the various groups of hasidim forming around the baalei-shem in the 18th … Continue reading →

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(Doubts) Ashkenaz & Philosophy

Posted on March 25, 2019 by zjb

Continuing to go out on a limb and meant to pick up a challenge posed by colleague-friends about the need for Modern Jewish Studies and Jewish Philosophy and Thought to take into account the life and thought world of Eastern … Continue reading →

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(Dribs & Drabs) Canon & Translation (Ashkenaz)

Posted on March 24, 2019 by zjb

Scholars in the field call upon Jewish Studies and Jewish Philosophy and Thought to pay attention to the thought world of Eastern European Jews, what I have been calling Ashkenaz, and they complain about the ignorance of their colleagues who … Continue reading →

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(Leviticus) Right Action Right Thought (Hertz Pentateuch)

Posted on March 23, 2019 by zjb

So far, not so much to say about the commentary to Leviticus in the classical Hertz Pentateuch & Haftorahs (1936), but there was a little and illuminating note in the introduction. On the one hand, Hertz argues that the intent … Continue reading →

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Questions about Ashkenaz & Gender

Posted on March 22, 2019 by zjb

Responding to colleague-friend-comrades calling for more serious look at East European Jewish history and culture, and with my own stakes in religion, here is another thought about what I’d like to call Ashkenaz. I’m also responding to colleague-friend-comrades Laura Levitt … Continue reading →

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