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(Secular Israelis) Wait Here With The Donkey (Joseph Soloveitchik)

Posted on February 1, 2023 by zjb

Here are jarring remarks by Joseph Soloveitchik about orthodox Judaism and religious Zionism regarding secular Jews. I am re-reading them after the November 2022 election as the main political representatives of orthodox Judaism dominating the new coalition declare war on … Continue reading →

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(April 1993) Soloveitchik Died? What’s On Television?

Posted on April 7, 2015 by zjb

American Judaism! I found this obituary, dated April 10, 1993, folded into my copy of Halakhic Man. On the back side of the page is that evening’s television schedule. Note the combination of public interest and ephemera on the pages … Continue reading →

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Soloveitchik Iconodolic

Posted on April 2, 2015 by zjb

“At the moment the image of his father came to him and appeared before him in the window.” A lovely little framing device set in white space, the quiet little epigraph to Soloveitchik’s Halakhic Man,  which he took from the Babylonian … Continue reading →

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American Jewish Thought Looney Tunes Modern(ist) Landscape (1950)

Posted on February 25, 2014 by zjb

I finally decided to include something on postwar American synagogue architecture, using Susan G. Solomon’s Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture as a platform with which to juxtapose the philosophical-theological thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Joseph Soloveitchik. With the recent … Continue reading →

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Bugs Bunny & Joseph Soloveitchik

Posted on February 18, 2014 by zjb

I thought this note from my TA is very funny. I’m sharing with her permission, and will explain later, how I see their sitz im leben in 1950s America. From: xxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:29 PM To: Zachary J Braiterman … Continue reading →

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