Monthly Archives: September 2019

Friends, Enemies, and Fish (Shana Tova)

Posted on September 29, 2019 by zjb

“To all of our friends, enemies, and blood enemies: Happy New Year” Der Groyser Kundes (Yiddish satirical; early 20th C) h/t Zackary Sholem Berger

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Trump, Rudy, Sam, and Volodymyr

Posted on September 27, 2019 by zjb

(A lot of you out there might have real problems with Uncle Sam, but still…) (h/t Adam Black and Jonathan Karp)

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(Jewish Emancipation) Teaching Marx & On the Jewish Question

Posted on September 25, 2019 by zjb

I am sure this probably includes a great many colleagues across the Humanities and also scholars of Marx, and Marxian theorists. This is all the more true when Jewishness is reduced to another expression of “whiteness.” But the sudden realization … Continue reading →

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De-Realized Social Space in Central New York

Posted on September 23, 2019 by zjb

Maybe new owners will buy this place up, but for now this empty site is a de-realized social space. Nature resumes its course; the weeds begin to grow in with their own lush life around this sign of small town … Continue reading →

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(Horrid Ideas) The Tikvah Fund & The Racist Right in Israel

Posted on September 20, 2019 by zjb

Always academic undercover, there was nothing ever innocent about the Tikvah Fund. In the States, they have since shut down their field operations, at Princeton and NYU. This article here at Haaretz includes in its analysis of the influence of … Continue reading →

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(Idea & History) Hermann Cohen After Marx

Posted on September 19, 2019 by zjb

[Max Lieberman, Women Plucking Geese (1871)] In the introduction to the Religion of Reason, Hermann Cohen claims that the unity and uniqueness of the idea of God “elevates belief to a speculative height that by comparison all other problems become … Continue reading →

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(Aversion & Affection) Reading for Gender in Rosenzweig

Posted on September 18, 2019 by zjb

Thank you and kudos to Willi Goetschel and Susan Shapiro for organizing this long awaited special edition of Bamidbar on gender and Rosenzweig. Here is the web address.  Shapiro introduces the edition followed by critical readings by Mara Benjamin, Gesine … Continue reading →

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(No Country for Old Women) Gender & Rosenzweig & Jewish Philosophy (Special Edition Bamidbar)

Posted on September 17, 2019 by zjb

Gender and Jewish Philosophy Edited by Susan Shapiro Bamidbar 4: 2 (2014) (appeared in print, summer 2019)   Susan Shapiro Introduction Mara H. Benjamin Love in the Star? A Feminist Challenge Gesine Palmer „Dying for Love“ – Making Sense of … Continue reading →

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(Shas) Religion & State (Israel Elections II 2019)

Posted on September 16, 2019 by zjb

This election video (h/t Menachem Butler). Say what you want, but there is something genuine and warm in its appeal to the spiritual culture of a community of voters.  

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(Human) Nationality, Ethnicity, Religion (Elections in Israel 2019)

Posted on September 16, 2019 by zjb

What happens is probably a crap shot, but anyone who wants to know something about the matrix of things in Israel (nationality, ethnicity, and religion) should drop everything and read Yehouda Shenhav’s The Arab Jews. In the meantime, three curious things … Continue reading →

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