http://shibbolethmagazine.com an undergraduate journal of Jewish thought at Yale Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:04:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://shibbolethmagazine.com/indra%e2%80%99s-net-the-photography-of-uncle-boonmee/ http://shibbolethmagazine.com/indra%e2%80%99s-net-the-photography-of-uncle-boonmee/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:20:02 +0000 Admin http://shibbolethmagazine.com/indra%e2%80%99s-net-the-photography-of-uncle-boonmee/ http://shibbolethmagazine.com/indra%e2%80%99s-net-the-photography-of-uncle-boonmee/feed/ 1 http://shibbolethmagazine.com/the-blog-wags-the-dog/ http://shibbolethmagazine.com/the-blog-wags-the-dog/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:00:07 +0000 Admin http://shibbolethmagazine.com/the-blog-wags-the-dog/ http://shibbolethmagazine.com/the-blog-wags-the-dog/feed/ 1 http://shibbolethmagazine.com/fathers-on-wax-on-syl-johnson/ http://shibbolethmagazine.com/fathers-on-wax-on-syl-johnson/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:20:02 +0000 http://shibbolethmagazine.com/fathers-on-wax-on-syl-johnson/ http://shibbolethmagazine.com/fathers-on-wax-on-syl-johnson/feed/ 0 http://shibbolethmagazine.com/religion-is-bad-and-other-responses/ http://shibbolethmagazine.com/religion-is-bad-and-other-responses/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:10:35 +0000 Yedidya Schwartz http://blog.newvoices.org/?p=6194 Ha'aretz's opinion page says religion is bad. The recent furor over a declaration issued by several Israeli rabbis, headed by the chief rabbi of Safed, Shmuel Eliyahu, urging Jewish residents not to rent apartments to Arabs, has been heated in all quarters. The primary angle taken by the Ha'aretz opinion page is that this shows why religion is bad. I want to talk about the response of some of the most prominent Israeli Orthodox rabbis who came out against the declaration.

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Throughout halakhic history, the classic legal definition of death has been drawn from the circulatory system: If a person’s heart is no longer beating, it can no longer supply the rest of the body with blood. In a very short amount of time, this will result in the death of all the rest of the organs.

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It is very entertaining and worth a watch, but for those who don't have time, or have difficulty bending their ears around the computerized reproduction of ashkenazic pronunciations of Jewish legal and exegetical technical terms, I'll give a short run-down.

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