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...Jewbilation festivities. Done in Jeopardy-fashion, the trivia game tapped into potentially touchy areas, including the category “I ‘Know’ You Biblical Relations.” “We really thought it was important to have an event like this because Judaism has a lot to say about these issues,” says contestant Ari Hoffman ’10. But the underwhelming attendance—a mere 13—seemed to indicate that it wasn’t a priority for many Hillel members. Nevertheless, organizers were not disappointed...
...self-described “agnostic at best,” Dershowitz was the first to explain the nuances of his “secular, perverse, and confrontational” Judaism...
...response. At Harvard, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies Francis S. Fiorenza—who signed the statement—said that there has been a discussion about the need to make the offerings in Islamic studies stronger. Although the response statement does recognize the common ground with Judaism as an Abrahamic faith, neither document mentions other faiths such as Buddhism or Hinduism. As of last night, only one professor of Jewish studies had written on this dialogue’s impact to Judaism, according to The Web site for “A Common Word...
TIME: You write that Judaism isn't alone in an ambivalence to dream work...
...Kamenetz: The dreams of Jacob or Joseph in the Bible are unmediated religious experience, and both Judaism and Christianity preserved mystical dream traditions. But direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled...