All posts by David J. Fryman
What Business Has One Born of Woman Among Us?
Pin It At the time of the giving of the Torah, the Talmud teaches (Shabbat 88b-89a), the heavenly angels appeared before God and asked, regarding Moses: “What business has one... Read More »
Two Kings Wearing One Crown
Pin It The relationship between religion and ethics is a perennial problem in philosophy of religion. In one sense, it seems redundant to say that a particular action is required... Read More »
“Let Him Cry and Shout”
Pin It Today is Yom Hasho’ah, Holocaust Memorial Day. All four of my grandparents are Holocaust survivors so the day is highly personal for me. I grew up with the... Read More »
A.B. Yehoshua: American Jews Are Only Partial Jews
Pin It A.B. Yehoshua is not a stupid man, despite recent evidence to the contrary. The famous Israeli author and Israel Prize laureate remarked at a lecture last week that... Read More »
The Pale God: An Inadequate Idea For Liberal Democracy
Pin It Aryeh Tepper reviews The Pale God: Israeli Secularism and Spinoza’s Philosophy of Culture for Jewish Ideas Daily. Katz argues (as Tepper paraphrases) that secular Israeli Jewry has come... Read More »
Sounding the Shofar of Social Justice
Pin It I met Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz several years ago when we were students in Yeshivat Hamivtar, in Israel. As those who know him personally would surely attest, Reb Shmuly... Read More »
Jewish Relativity, Revisited
Pin It Fellow Jewneric blogger, Joshua Einstein, writes about a common argument made by Jewish outreach organizations: “the secular world is morally relative and adrift†and only religion provides “moral... Read More »
Tebowing as Political Metaphor
Pin It In an otherwise unremarkable article about the controversy over Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow’s public displays of religiosity, a quote from Gary Ebersole, a University of Missouri-Kansas City... Read More »
Judaism, Democracy, and Public Reason
Pin It The appropriate role of religion in American political discourse is a debate older than the Constitution itself. It predictably recurs whenever a politician or celebrity invokes or insults... Read More »
