Monday, September 27, 2010

Parsha Bereshit: The Entitlement Mentality and the Meaning of "Being Created in His Image"

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People whose religious leanings are more inclined to the Left, whether they be Jewish or Christian, love to invoke the phrase "man is c...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Yom Tov Sheni, Orthodoxy, and the Path to Authoritarianism

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Sometimes, when you initially argue certain points, you like to go back and see if anything has either changed or needs to be refined.  Back...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

The Decidedly Anti-Jewish Jewish Practice of Chicken Flinging

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There is a practice in which you fling a rooster around your head three times, utter the phrase "This is my exchange, this is my substi...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Guilt versus Shame: Why I Love Yom Kippur

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When I tell people that Yom Kippur is my favorite holiday on the Jewish calendar, I get the strangest looks. Between the fasting for twenty-...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Is the Bible "Black and White": A New Look at the Sacrifice of Isaac

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Most people in this world are not religious fundamentalists.  For a large majority of people, excessive stringencies and walking a very narr...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

J'en ai assez avec les jérémiades!

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This was enough to make me scream «Suffit!»  The French are "up in arms" because they raised the age for retirement benefits from ...
Sunday, September 5, 2010

Can We Modify the Definition of Kashrut?

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We are what we eat.  The more I study Jewish dietary laws and the reasoning behind them, I find that dietary choices reflect one's perso...