The Israeli cellular company Cellcom is known for having good TV advertisements. A very recent one, which while still an advertisement, also says a lot about the status of religion in Israeli society. (hat tip) The advertisement seems to show the wedding of a newly religious man, with his secular friends trying to get to [...]
In a comment to a previous post, my good friend Harry wrote, I have been arguing the main points of both authors as you describe them. But I cannot read these articles because they are in Hebrew. Is there anyway for them to be translated- lets say to English? The question of language aside, I [...]
Last week’s Musaf Shabbat of Makor Rishon had two articles that will no doubt be discussed for quite some time. Both articles are in Hebrew, and in about a month when I have more time I will translate them if no one will have already done so. The first article was by Ariel Picard, On [...]
NJ Priest Accused Of Rushing Pallbearers, Holy Communion, And Eulogy: A NJ Priest has been accused of extreme rudeness by two of his congregants who claim that he interrupted and rushed them through their grandmother’s funeral service. Sisters Laurie Treene and Robyn Nini say that Reverend Bartley P. Baker, of St. Leo’s Roman Catholic Church [...]
Much has already been written about Yair Sheleg’s recent book on the Jewish Renaissance in Israel. This past shabbat’s Makor Rishon has another review (Hebrew) of the book. One of the points that the reviewer, Uri Heitner, wanted to stress was that the seeds of the Jewish Renaissance in Israel go back earlier than is [...]
The weekday edition of Makor Rishon has been available online for some time, and I just saw that part of their Musaf Shabbat is now also online here. If you’re looking for quality writing about Israeli and Jewish culture, this is the place to look.
Israelity has posted a lexicon of Israeli acronyms for religious identification and practice. I would add one that I heard from a friend: dela’at, which means squash, but in this case it is dati le-atid, “religious in the future,” in the Rosenzweigian-sense of the term.
Last night I stumbled across a TV interview with Robert Putnam, the author of the well-known book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community . He has a new book out that was written with David Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. It seems like a very interesting book. Here [...]
It is for interesting links like the one below that I still read Andrew Sullivan: Why are Mormons so good at keeping their children within the faith? Eve Tushnet explains: Parents who show, by their words or their actions, that the tenets and practices of their faith are vague, unimportant, or only tenuously related to [...]
Here you can find the audio of a talk that Arthur Green gave recently at the Shalom Hartman Institute about his book Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition. It is worth a listen.
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