Tag Archives: law

Israel Annexation & International Law

Posted on June 29, 2020 by

Explaining the legal ins and outs of annexation (domestic and international) is this interview here with Pnina Sharvit Baruch, described as a 20-year veteran of the Israel Defense Forces’ International Law Department, the department’s head from 2003 to 2009, a … Continue reading →

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(International Law Professors) Letter against Annexation of the West Bank

Posted on June 10, 2020 by

A letter addressed to Israeli government leadership by a long list of international law scholars against annexation of West Bank territories. Scroll down for the English. I’m also posting a PDF here [[H/t Nathaniel Berman]] 10.6.2020   לכבוד: חבר הכנסת … Continue reading →

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Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch on Philosophy of Halakhah

Posted on June 8, 2020 by

Originally posted on The Book of Doctrines and Opinions::
Last month, Rabbi Nahum Eliezer Rabinovitch, the dean of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe in Maale Adumim, passed away at the age of 92 years old. As a tribute to him at the…

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Law/Annexation/Apartheid in Israel (Michael Sfard & Nathaniel Berman)

Posted on June 3, 2020 by

Against the view on the left that de jure, as opposed to de facto, annexation will only reveal the true mask of the regime and won’t make a difference in terms of direct legal-jurisdictional and social impacts on Palestinian lives … Continue reading →

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(Spinoza Says) Enlightenment Now (Shut the Synagogues) (Coronavirus)

Posted on March 27, 2020 by

[[Dutch Portuguese Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo arguing for the lifting of the ban on Baruch Spinoza, December 6, 2015. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)]] About Enlightenment, post-secularism, and anti-liberal twaddle. Watching in real time and with some pleasure as the unfolding relationship between … Continue reading →

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Pikuach Nefesh Is/Is Not An Overriding Halakhic Value

Posted on March 19, 2020 by

I’ll might take this post down because maybe I’m getting it terribly wrong. But I’m going to give it a shot. The principle of Pikuch Nefesh (saving life) is a well-known and a cardinal principle of Jewish law. The notion … Continue reading →

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(Hashtag) Heteronomy @ the AJS (Martin Kavka)

Posted on December 2, 2019 by

The slightest correction to a Martin Kavka hashtag: #WeAreTooOldForHeteronomyAtTheAJS#NotEvenAsAPaperTopic  

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Teshuva Love-Sick (Maimonides)

Posted on October 7, 2019 by

Proving something about the sensual, even arabesque, core at the heart of Maimonidean rationalism by way of proving R. Akiva’s dictum that the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies is some over the top love-sick camp from Maimonides … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 27, 2019 by

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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Religion, Education, State (Haredi Yeshivot & the New York Board of Regents)

Posted on November 23, 2018 by

Students of American religion, American Judaism, and Jewish political philosophers might want to pay attention. The headline reads “Yeshivas Get Curriculum Reviews As Orthodox Power Wanes in New York” and the ramifications for haredi Jewish life and American Jewish life … Continue reading →

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