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Tag Archives: Schmuley Boteach
hagel: bring it on home to zion
Is there any reason for this kicking the nominee for Defense secretary down the road? Like a Bruegel painting, the monstrous and deformed are indeed symbols of moral corruption as the lobbyists against Chuck Hagel’s nomination have tried to attach … Continue reading
trial of JC: 12 angry pharisees
Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition has held for so long, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender?… The author of Mark endeavors to meet the difficulty by transferring the responsibility … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arch of Titus, Flavius Josephus, Francesco Hayez, Giotto di Bordone, James Tissot, Josephus the Jewish War, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Markan Gospel, Pauline Christians, rabbi tovia singer, Schmuley Boteach, Shlomo Amar, Synoptic Gospels, Tacitus, The Gospel of Mark, The Jewish Revolt, The Jewish War, Titus and Domitian, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian
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no redemption left behind
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. And if I can add to Dickens, it was the end of times. The end of all times. The Peace Train is coming. Even Dickens was not immune … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Amy Goodman Democracy Now, Gershom Scholem, Giotto di Bordone, Harold Bloom, Jerry B. Jenkins, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mike Huckabee, Noam Chomsky, Schmuley Boteach, Slavoj Zizek, The Left Behind Novels, The Moral Majority, Tim LaHaye
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appeal of the kit-kat style
Its popular entertainment to attribute the unknown throughout history to secret societies, the esoteric forces and hints of sacred sexuality gone awry. From Umberto Eco’s Prague Cemetery, Dan Brown or even Schmuley Boteach and his blending of implied messianism with … Continue reading
judging a cover by its book
Biblical prophecy is always a fascinating subject, dealing as it does with the hope of golden age, a repairing of the world, a making whole, a redemption mixed with the equal propensity for apocalyptic destruction. It predates the secular utopianism … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Dante Republic, Francis Bacon, Franz Kafka, Igal Hecht, Jonathan Swift, Kosher Jesus, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milan Kundera, Nicolas Poussin, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Richard Dawkins, Schmuley Boteach, Sir Thomas More, Walter Benjamin
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stand-off
It can be said that evolutionary theory is the centerpiece of modern Western thought, in fact of Western secular society, from economics, consumerism, the military, agriculture to parenting and politics. The appeal of linear progression, the basis for invidious comparison … Continue reading
BILLION DOLLAR BASH
The story of Goldman-Sachs, the mystique of the firm and the interest, excuse the pun, it has created, lends much credence to the view of the powerful, influential, yet ultimately precarious and fragile role of the ”Court Jew ”; individuals … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Bible Book of Esther, Brian Griffiths Goldman-Sachs, Carl Levin, Charles Lewis National Post, Donald Trump, Gary Krupp, Geoffrey T. Boisi, Goldman Sachs, James William Freshfield, John Lennon, John Varley, Joseph Oppenheimer, Joseph Oppenheimer execution, Joseph Suss Oppenheimer, Jud Suss, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Maureen Cleave, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Moritz Oppenheim, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Opus Dei, Richard S. Levy, Schmuley Boteach, Selma Stern, The Beatles, Trilateral Commission, Victor Lenepveu
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