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(Christianity) Talmud and the Impotence of God (Petrus Alfonsi)
Petrus Alfonsi was a Jewish convert to Christianity who grew up in an Iberian-Islamic milieu in Huesca, which became the capital of Aragon atthe time of the Christian reconquest. While it goes unnamed as such, his Dialogus contra Iudaeos (ca. … Continue reading
Question about Freud re: Surrealism
[Hans Bellmer, The Doll, 1936] About Freud’s bemusement about Surrealism, that they made him their patron saint, this piece, which you can read here, by Donald Kaplan is excellent. “On his side, Freud was flattered by such benediction. When the sculptor Oscar … Continue reading
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Abortion =/= Murder (Jewish Law)
While a firm line of medieval and early modern tradents and modern traditionalists rule that abortion is not permitted according to Jewish law, what we today call the right to abortion, even late term abortion, is, in fact, well grounded … Continue reading
Medieval Islam & The Dialogue Against the Jews (Peter Alfonsi)
Petrus Alphonsi (d. 1116) was a Jewish Spanish physician, writer, astronomer, and polemicist, who converted to Christianity in 1106. He is also known just as Alphonsi, and as Peter Alfonsi or Peter Alphonso and was born Moses Sephardi). Born in Islamic Spain, he mostly lived in England and France after his conversion (wiki). He … Continue reading
Virtual Reality Of Holocaust Memory
There is probably no way around that the future of Holocaust memory is going to be virtual. As explained here by Esther Zandberg, architecture critic at Ha’aretz, “The litany of new terms appearing in ads for virtual exhibitions at Holocaust … Continue reading
Moral Meaning and the Holocaust (James Loeffler)
This piece here by James Loeffler on the one and the many and the Holocaust and comparative analysis is superbly nuanced. Of particular interst is Raphael Lemkin and the formulation of intenrational protocols defining genocide. While I do not necessarily … Continue reading
(ADL) Anti-Semitism Algorithm
Critics of the ADL are invited to pile on, but, for all that, I am posting here a precis and the full report here of their Online Hate Index. It’s an AI program whose alogrithm tracks anti-Semitic content at Twitter … Continue reading
(James Loeffler) After Charlottesville: Antisemitism, Race, Law (Rudolph Lecture)
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Sefat Emet Passover
I added here a digest of the Sefat Emet on Passover to this digest of the Sefat Emet, but you’ll have to scroll down to the bottom or word-search “Passover.”
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The Hasidic Seder Plate is an Objet de Fantasie
I’ll post more later from Batsheva Goldman-Ida’s Hasidic Art and Kabbalah, but I want to share these three pictures in particular for the Passover holiday. In part, I’m choosing these three photographs because they are themselves rather remarkable. The photographs by … Continue reading
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