Monday, January 29, 2007

YU Medical Ethics: Genetic Screening (Rabbi Mordechai Willig)

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THESE NOTES ARE UNOFFICIAL AND UNEDITED. ANY AND ALL MISTAKES ARE MY FAULT. Michaella Goldberg introduced R’ Mordechai Willig, explaining th...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Mockery and Reverence

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Mockery is destructive. It does not befit us to mock others. Mockery is the refuge of the weak, the refuge of cowards, those who don't u...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

A Comedy of Errors

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I woke up this morning, groggily hearing the dim beep of my alarm. I muttered under my breath, "Oh, great," then proceeded to roll...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

YU Medical Ethics: Creating in God’s Image? Cloning in Jewish Law

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THESE NOTES ARE UNOFFICIAL AND UNEDITED. ANY MISTAKES ARE MY FAULT. Full recordings of the speeches available here. Introduction: Good eveni...
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Monday, January 22, 2007

Isaac Died: The Alternative Version of Akedas Yitzchak

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The Last Trial is a fantastic book. (And it's available at YU) It is the English translation of a work (actually, a sixty-seven page in...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Joy: On Ice Skating, Dana and Barbecued Ribs

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So I had an awesome Shabbos. My roommate and I were going to be the only two people to stay in, and as I had to go off to the Barnes and Nob...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The Deadly Tea-Party

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What do GRRM's Red Wedding, the Arabian Nights and Job all have in common? Why, they have the motif of the Deadly Tea-Party, that is, a ...
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Monday, January 15, 2007

Literary Fun with the Apocrypha

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In an attempt to find the source for Adam's third wife , in which endeavor Yair helped greatly, I stumbled upon a fascinating book calle...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

I Write Into Silence

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My posts are my thoughts, not my actions. I am a religious, committed Orthodox Jew. And I love God. And yet I think about defying Him, as I ...
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