Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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‘The library isn’t a building. It’s a community’
I have been teaching English as a Second Language to adult immigrants and refugees at Jewish Vocational Services for more than three decades. You would think that by now I would have amassed enough materials to reuse lessons and then move on to the next topic. But that is not the case… Continue Reading News Source:…
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The state of the union is exciting
Even if the speech itself is boring — and let’s face it, most State of the Union addresses aren’t particularly compelling oratorical exercises, no matter which side of the aisle the speaker and the listener come from — it seems clear that being in that room during the speech must… Continue Reading News Source: njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com
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400 ex-security chiefs urge Herzog not to sign laws that negate Israel’s core values
More than 400 ex-senior security officials, including former heads of the police, Shin Bet and Mossad, signed a public letter Thursday urging President Isaac Herzog not to agree to any laws that contradict Israel’s core democratic values as he works to mediate a compromise version of… Continue Reading News Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/400-ex-security-chiefs-urge-herzog-not-to-sign-laws-that-negate-israels-core-values/amp/
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The Sage of Antwerp | Mendy Chitrik
Zeidy’s mother Sarah Hinde, who was a descendant of the great Hassidic dynasties of Poland, died in Auschwitz… Zeidy told me, “When I was a child they used to paint here on the walls ‘Jews go TO Palestine!’ Now the graffiti says ‘Jews go OUT of Palestine!’ So, where should we go,… Continue Reading News…
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Playing with fire | New Jersey Jewish News
It’s been almost exactly a year since Vladimir Putin, the angry dwarf himself, the runt-like street kid who grew up deeply scarred by World War II, although he was born after it ended, invaded Ukraine, calling for its denazification. There already are dead 250,000 soldiers from both… Continue Reading News Source: njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com
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UN Security Council to Vote on Israel’s Settlements Expansion amid International Condemnation
The United Nations Security Council Chamber in New York. (Photo: Patrick Gubran, via Wikimedia Commons) The UN Security Council will likely vote on Monday on a resolution that would demand Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian… Continue Reading News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com
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‘Here we are all Jews’
Rabbi Jonathan Porath looks back, on Zoom, at 175 trips to Russia, over 50 years Continue Reading News Source: njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com
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Pastry @2 | New Jersey Jewish News
What is life? Life is good, life is bad, life is surprising, life is challenging. As for the meaning of life? Life is waking up every morning and being grateful that you can get out of bed and walk to the bathroom unassisted. Or even remember where the bathroom is. Okay, that isn’t the… Continue…
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Look! Up in the sky!
Look! Up in the sky! Continue Reading News Source: njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com
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Grand old hypocrisy | New Jersey Jewish News
The Grand Old Party knows antisemitism when it sees it and is swift in dealing with it. That is why, on February 2, House Republicans voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. No less than the Jew-ish New York Republican, George Santos,… Continue Reading News Source:…
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