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Animal Wisdom: The Voice of the Serpent
Our family watched Jaws together the other evening -- which, in case you're wondering, I regard as responsible parenting since our kids are basically too young to be genuinely scared by the film. The whole rest of the next day, two-year-old Saul was chattering about the "shark teeth." "Shark teeth g
posted 3:56:33pm Mar. 16, 2010 |
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Reading Wesley Smith: Why the Darwin Debate Matters
If the intelligent-design side in the evolution debate doesn't receive the support you might expect from people who should be allies, that may be because they haven't grasped why the whole thing matters so urgently. I got an email recently from a journalist whom I'd queried on the subject. "All told
posted 5:07:12pm Mar. 15, 2010 |
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The Mission of the Jews
Don't miss my essay over at First Things on the mission of the Jews to the world. This, I think, the key idea that the Jewish community needs to absorb at this very unusual cultural moment, for the time is so, so right. Non-Jews are waiting for us to fulfill the roll God gave us in the Torah. Please
posted 6:14:16pm Mar. 05, 2010 |
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Darwin at the Mountains of Madness: Evolution & the Occult
Of all the regrettable cultural forces that Darwinism helped unleash, perhaps the most surprising and seemingly unlikely is its role in sparking the creation of modern occultism. Charles Darwin himself could not have been less interested in the topic. But no attempt to assess the scope of his legacy
posted 2:04:11pm Mar. 04, 2010 |
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Why Women Will Never Be Orthodox Rabbis
I have sympathy for religious mavericks like Rabbi Avi Weiss of New York, who for ordaining a woman as a rabbi, or "rabba" as he calls her, is under fire from Orthodox rabbinic colleagues on the Rabbinical Council of America. To be Avi Weiss takes guts. Unfortunately for him, as the N
posted 6:10:06pm Feb. 28, 2010 |
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posted July 15, 2009 at 8:19 am
Your two posts on this subject are at best absurd and at worst downright stupid. There are interest groups for every issue out there. However, at a time when the Jewish state is in peril from a despot threatening genocide while the world sits on its hands, and the current President of the US furthers his policies of appeasement on a weekly basis, there is NO greater issue to the Jewish community. Should American Jews ignore Israel and discuss health care? Have you lost all perspective?
The Torah is a blueprint for Jewish life in Israel. Despite the tenets of the odd brand of observant Judaism you seem to have adopted, Mercer Island is not the Holy Land. And despite your best efforts it never will be.
You have a wonderful capacity of taking isolated Hirsch quotes out of both textual and certainly historical context – always to suit your bizarre pseudo chareidi anti-Zionism. I have pointed that out before.
Your silliness is vaguely reminiscent of Jewish apologists in the late 1930′s and 1940s.