Faur On The Edges of Meaning
By David Ramírez “Today I fight alone with a word. The word which belongs to me, and to which I belong: heads or tails? eagle or sun?” — Octavio Paz, […]
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Translucent Line
In my humble amazement, I write these poor words, which pretend to be a poem, to a marvel of creation Divine. Dear reader, forgive me for being a simpleton. Hyaline […]
Faur (almost) in the Nude
By David Ramirez The slightest alteration in the relation between man and the signifier, in this case in the procedure of exegesis, changes the whole course of history by modifying […]
Don’t Blame Abraham for the Israeli Conquest of Palestine
A Response to Gary Leupp’s “The Myth of Abraham and America’s Allegiance to Israel”[1] By David Ramírez People who have been critical of the modern state of Israel often have […]
The Status of Women in the Sephardic Jewish Tradition
By: Renee Levine Melammed Written histories of the Jews in Spain have rarely included women. The two major historical works in the field, The Jews of Moslem Spain (2 vols.) by Eliyahu […]
The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture
By Robert Brody Introduction One of the most misunderstood issues in the traditional Jewish religious world is the transmission of the legal traditions of Israel. Today all centers of […]
Essential Books on Israel and Zionism
Over the course of time, one of the great advantages of Israeli propaganda, called in Hebrew Hasbarah, is that it has been able to control the historical and ideological narrative […]
The Myth of a Judeo-Christian Tradition
New Dawn Magazine. No.23 Feb-March 1994, pp. 23-27. Preface In the U.S. and some conservative sectors of Europe, there is a lot of appeal for the so-called “Judeo-Christian” tradition, a […]
Followership
By: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks There is a fascinating sequence of commands in the great “holiness code” with which our parsha begins, that sheds light on the nature not just of […]
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