This week in Torah Studies: Is it a Tower of Babel or of Babbling: The meaning (along with the ramifications of their) 'words' seem to have gotten in the way: Far from Babylonia, and its 'towers,' let us have yet another look at American Ivory Towers: Columbia University, once an academic … [Read more...]

Thursday is Yizkor -- a day in which we see threads of the Kaddish . . . foretelling our death or our lives? Greenblatt: "We are stronger as one people than as fragmented groups.” (Death or Life, choose life) This on Shabbat, we see the Ezekiel prophecies, from the Haftara: (see here) from … [Read more...]

"Selectivity and Moral Outrage" (please have a look at the Brett Stevens Column re Moral Outrage -- written as an indictment of the "Moral Outrage crowd" along with the so-called "virtue-signaling-selection-crowd"). Drawing on the Past Deuteronomy (from the Parsha) 13:29 הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֗ … [Read more...]

"Deja Jew all over again" To keep us with writings, readings, prophecies, and the world around us, and in order to help us better ponder "today" . . . let's have another look at Esther, who for a variety of reasons, some might say political, maybe even social, and certainly emotional reasons, … [Read more...]