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(Birthday) JPP is 10 Years Old

Posted on January 11, 2022 by zjb

At some point around or a bit before the summer, I stopped writing here about “actual” things like politics, Covid, and Israel. There was more I am wanting to say about the “reality” or “surreality” of religion, animism, God, and … Continue reading →

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(Birthday) JPP is 9 Years Old (2020)

Posted on January 19, 2021 by zjb

JPP turned 9 years old this month. It being a birthday, I will not say anything about the end of 2020, an ugly and angry year of social isolation and psychic miasma after 5 fearful years of Trump –except to … Continue reading →

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Rav Naftali Tzvi Weiss (Auschwitz Album)

Posted on May 2, 2019 by zjb

In America there’s no such thing as Holocaust Rememberance Day, but Twitter constitutes a country of its own. That is where I found this photograph of Rav Naftali Tzvi Weiss, Rosh Yeshiva in Bilke, and his students waiting for selection … Continue reading →

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(Birthday) JPP is 7 Years Old

Posted on January 25, 2019 by zjb

JPP turned 7 years old the other week, which is a nice number, and rather remarkable about what for me stands out as the passage of time. Next year, I think I run out of NYC subway lines with which … Continue reading →

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(Birthday) 5 Years Old Jewish Philosophy Place

Posted on January 10, 2017 by zjb

Jewish Philosophy Place has just recently turned 5 years old. Last year for birthday 4, I wrote, “In the final year of the Obama Age, JPP is world-weary waiting for the next shoe to drop, the next war, the next … Continue reading →

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Jewish Studies in the Public Sphere (Jewish Philosophy Place at HuffPost Religion)

Posted on January 14, 2016 by zjb

Will I continue to expose myself shamelessly in public? Apparently, I’m now blogging at HuffPost Religion. But I’m not actually moving. The idea is to cross-post content from here that might appeal to a more general readership over there. Looking … Continue reading →

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4 Years Old Jewish Philosophy Place

Posted on January 12, 2016 by zjb

Last year at anniversary time, I complained about the way politics banged up rudely here at the blog. It came as something of a surprise, but given the war in Gaza, there was no way around it. “Thanks to the war,” the … Continue reading →

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Betty Crocker Jewish Philosophy

Posted on October 29, 2015 by zjb

Brilliant piece, which you can read here, in the NYT Sunday Magazine by Tamar Adler about the Betty Crocker food phenomenon as exemplified by the 1971 Betty Crocker Recipe Card Library (with photographs by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari). In a private … Continue reading →

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Our Aesthetic Categories Are Zany, Cute, & Interesting (Sianne Ngai)

Posted on March 11, 2015 by zjb

Last semester for Theory Reading Group with Gail Hamner in the Department of Religion we read Sianne Ngai’s Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting. I don’t think I’ve read anything of late that has so shifted my perception regarding the … Continue reading →

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Jewish Philosophy Place 3 Years Old (Birthday)

Posted on January 15, 2015 by zjb

JPP is now 3 years old, plus or minus a couple of days. And frankly, it’s been a miserable year. A friend-colleague recently commented that he didn’t think I’d touch political problems on the blog. Perhaps that had something to … Continue reading →

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