Promoting episode 17, Unintelligent Design, I joined a Facebook group for Young Earth Creationists. As you might have guessed, it ended badly. When I joined the group devoted to YEC (Young Earth Creationism or Young Earth Creationists or Yokohama Rubber Company), I was straight with them: “Shalom! I’m an Orthodox […]
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“Dad, do you have a gun license?” “Nope.” “Would you please get one?” “And a gun?” “Of course.” “You’d feel safer that way?” “Yes.” That was my 10 year-old daughter as we walked to her youth group meeting from our home in a Jewish enclave in a mostly Arab section […]
My cousin asked me to take a look at an article about who’s a Jew and patrilineal descent. It mentions that the normative position in halakha (Jewish law), which is roughly equivalent to the Orthodox position today, is that the child of a non-Jewish mother is non-Jewish. The article does […]
I can hear my homeland calling me Come back to me now[1] Where are we going? Sadly, we have had that answer ever since we were a husband and wife iconoclast movement. אברהם אבינו, the idol smashing[2] counterculture activist we trace our whole movement/religion/people to, was already told the […]
And so you see I have come to doubt All that I once held as true I stand alone, without beliefs The only Truth I know is You [1] This existential drive to Be a human being, to be “Real”, valued, is one that is present in all of humanity. […]
guest post by David Sedley On July 21,1798, at the Battle of the Pyramids, Napoleon’s troops defeated Murad Bey and Ibrahim Bey, ending almost 700 years of Mamluk rule. This victory completed Napoleon’s conquest of the country and he and his men entered Cairo triumphantly. The French ruled Egypt for […]
guest post by David Sedley Just think how different our lives were 15 years ago. Before Facebook and YouTube were invented how did we share pictures of our dinner? How did we catch up on the latest late-night television or watch cat videos? How did we have irate political discussions? […]
Accidie is one of my favorite words. (This is Tzvi typing.) “ACCIDIE has been in the language since the Middle Ages, and in classical Greek as ‘akedos’, much longer ago. Its literal meaning is ‘not caring’, but the IE root was ‘KAD’, sorrow hatred; ‘kad’ is the origin of our […]