This week we have two Torah portions — Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9–30:20) and Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1–30), but let's talk about Rosh Hashanah (Jewish new year).
Friday, September 3, 2010
David Suissa On Rosh Hashanah II
This week we have two Torah portions — Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9–30:20) and Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1–30), but let's talk about Rosh Hashanah (Jewish new year).
David Suissa On Rosh Hashanah
This week we have two Torah portions — Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9–30:20) and Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1–30), but let's talk about Rosh Hashanah (Jewish new year).
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Nazis Like Bach?
In a 1996 lecture on Exodus 20, Dennis Prager says: We always have a debate in our country about funding for the National Endowment of the Arts. The people who argue for funding say the mark of a civilization is its arts.
That’s not true. Germany was the most artistically advanced civilization. How did a society that gave us Beethoven give us Auschwitz? But the question is a non-sequitur. There is no reason that a society that gave us Beethoven shouldn’t give us Auschwitz.
It hurts me to believe that I could cry at Beethoven’s 7th symphony and the Nazis could cry at Beethoven’s 7th. Josef Mengele liked Beethoven.
The commandant of Auschwitz would play Schubert at night. The Jews would sing and if he didn’t like their voice, he’d gas them.
Rabbis At An Exhibition
In a 1996 lecture on Exodus 20, Dennis Prager says: There was a great hesitation to use art for anything but worshipping God [in the Jewish tradition]. The rabbis didn’t sit down, generally speaking, and paint. We didn’t have Hillel giving an exhibition of his works. The exhibition of Hillel’s works is in the Talmud and they are words. Jews painted with words.
I've Never Seen Whites Mistreat Blacks
I was just watching ESPN and it advertised that on Friday night at 7pm PST, it will show this high school football game between the Grant Pacers and the Folsom Bulldogs.
I went to the redneck Placer High School (class of 1984). For my last two years there, we were in the same athletic league as Grant, a predominantly black school.
When we went to play at Grant, there was all sorts of racial taunting and animosity thrown our way by the black Grant students. They got up in our faces and tried to provoke fights.
There was no racial taunting or reciprocal behavior by our students.
I’m 44 years old. I have never seen a white person mistreat a black person for racial reasons. On the other hand, I’ve seen dozens of examples of blacks mistreating whites because of race.
How Do Libertarians Sleep At Night?
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager says: “I want to know how leftists and libertarians sleep at night knowing the slaughter that will take place in Afghanistan if we leave?”
I’m not a leftist nor a libertarian and I have no position on how the United States should conduct itself in Afghanistan or Iraq, but I think the question is easily answered with a question — how does Dennis Prager sleep at night knowing the massive genocide in the Congo could be halted with U.S. intervention?
We could intervene all over the world to stop genocide and cost ourselves thousands of dead Americans and spend ourselves into bankruptcy.
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