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Tag Archives: Maimonides
i thought i saw saint augustine
Jerusalem Syndrome….Jerusalem. Is it something in the water. An untraceable ingredient from an underground well? There is something. Jerusalem has always evoked messianic symbolism and exerted a seemingly magnetic attraction for people awaiting the Messiah, those who feel they can … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Destruction of the Second Temple, Gershom Salomon, Gogol Russian writer, Ivri Lider, Ivri Lider & Mookie, Jerusalem Syndrome, Louis Theroux, Maimonides, Maimonides Temple Mount, Michael Moore, Michael Moore Jerusalem Syndrome, Moshe Dayan Temple Mount, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Chaim Richman, rabbi ovadia yosef, Shlomo Amar, Six Day War Jerusalem, Stendhal Syndrome, Temple Institute, Temple Institute Menorah, Temple Mount Faithful, The Temple Mount Jerusalem, Vadim Rabinovitch, Yona Metzger
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lets build something together: but not quite yet
…One of the most famous such sources is a recounting in the Talmud of a story that occurred after the destruction, when several of the most prominent sages of the time, including Rabbi Akiva, went up to the Temple Mount. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aish Hatorah, Building the Third Temple, Dov Hikind, Gershon Salomon, Hans Memling, Jerusalem Syndrome, Louis Theroux, Maimonides, Major General Uzi Narkiss, Michael Moore Jerusalem Syndrome, Moshe Feiglin, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Akiva Jerusalem, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Richard Silverstein, Ushpizin movie, Zerach Warhaftig
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the blobs
Characterizing the idea of “otherness” is the ultimate divide and conquer, and in the case of the Arabs a metaphor for the word “backwards” homogenously spread over a large swathe of the globe and a sub-category for Islam in general. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged craig thompson habibi, Dr. jack Shaheen, Edward Said, Harrison Ford Raiders of the Lost Ark, Israel Shahak, Jean Leon Gerome, Madame Pickwick, Maimonides, MEK People's Holy Jihadis, michelle bachmann, Muslim Brotherhood, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Steven Spielberg, Thorstein Veblen
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long winding road: cordoba to teheran
What Maimonides penned in the Medieval period still has coherence today. It is not by wiping out our neighbors, ostensibly and tangibly hostile nations that we attain peace and freedom. To Maimonides is was by conquering ourselves that the peace … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Boyko Metodiev Borisov, Giulio Meotti, Hatikva6, Iranian Revolution, Israel Bulgaria bombing, Jacob Bender, James Cameron, Maimonides, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Out of Cordoba Jacob Bender, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, Reza Deghati, Slavoj Zizek, UNESCO Maimonides
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united we stand: complications of moral inversions
Its been a bit dicey ever since Maimonides ( Rambam) pronounced perhaps hat many had thought, but lacked the intestinal fortitude to say: Muhammad was false prophet and an insane man.Even criminally insane. The scathing remarks also included the assertion … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Ashton, Donald Kuspit, ethiopian jews, EU Arab formula, European Union Israel, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Gamal Abdel Nasser KGB, Giulio Meotti, Joseph Stalin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Marcel Duchamp, matisyahu, Matisyahu Bal Shem Tov, Mughrabi Bridge, Rambam and Islam, Shabbetai Tzvi, The Euro crisis, UNESCO Israel
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disturbed but preserved
After two millennia, the words still strike with amazement, the visions still transport us, there are still secrets only half discovered.Most of the ancient books have been destroyed either intentionally or accidentally, hatred and forgetfulness have obliterated vast treasures of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, Abraham Cresques Catalan Atlas, Akkadian words, Aristophanes, Babylonian King Hammurabi, Bram Stoker, Catalan Atlas, Hammurabi Law Code, Hungarian Angevin Legendary Hungary, Karl Marx, Livy historian, Livy History of Rome, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Neil MacGregor British Museum, Pompeii frescoes, Stele of Hammurabi, The Aleppo Codex, Vatican Library
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into the heartland of heresy: religion as a private matter
Heresies. Recurrent ideas which break through the continually sealed crust of orthodoxy because they contain an important truth or an irrepressible human aspiration. And they don’t seem limited to one religion. In fact, monotheism seems to reinforce their appearances… The … Continue reading
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Tagged Albigensian heresy, Arafat and John Paul II, Arafat and the Pope, Bill Maher atheism, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Giordano Bruno, Giulio Cesare Vanini, Goethe, Gottfried Arnold, Heresy of the Cathars, Heretics history, Jewish Heresies, John Wycliffe, Judith Butler, Maimonides, Montanist Church, Pedro Berruguete, Rambam, ross douthat, William Blake, Yitzhak Shamir
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