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Comment on Prayer against racist violence we recited this past Shabbat at Services by Glauber Meyer Pinto Ribeiro

Glauber Meyer Pinto Ribeiro — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 01:21:56 +0000

Amen!

Comment on Created in G-d’s Image by Glauber Meyer Pinto Ribeiro

Glauber Meyer Pinto Ribeiro — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 08:25:26 +0000

Amen!

Comment on Parasha Va-era by Marc Rudolph

Marc Rudolph — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 18:40:18 +0000

Dear Anonymous,

I will let people make up their own minds as to whether I reproduced a "distorted, truncated quote"for ASA president Marez. I do not think I did. Because I did not quote him at length does not mean I distorted his quote, or left the wrong impression with my readers. Let people follow your link to the NYT article and decide for themselves.

Comment on Parasha Va-era by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 18:08:40 +0000

Hopefully accidentally, since I can't imagine an ethical person doing this on purpose, this piece reproduces a distorted, truncated quote from ASA president Marez. The original NTY story of record on-line shows the whole, undistorted quote: “He argued that the United States has “a particular responsibility to answer the call for boycott because it is the largest supplier of military aid to the state of Israel.” While acknowledging that the same could be said of a number of oppressive governments, past and present, he said that in those countries, civil society groups had not asked his association for a boycott, as Palestinian groups have.” It's also the case that the US sanctions many nations, not Israel and "singles" the nation out itself by not taking any action when it would in other cases. Boycotts are a peaceful way of responding to what has been an intractable political problem. But no matter what you think about this controversial issue, can't we all agree that we should respect evidence and not distort the truth to make a political point? Don't people fact check quotes anymore? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/us/scholars-group-to-disclose-result-of-vote-on-an-academic-boycott-of-israel.html?_r=0

Comment on Parasha Vayishlach by Glauber Meyer Pinto Ribeiro

Glauber Meyer Pinto Ribeiro — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:07:21 +0000

Isn't it interesting that when talking about G-d we default to telling about what he is not (or has not)? "G-d doesn't have form. Or shape. Or smell. Or an email address." Who are we to say things like that.

C. S. Lewis had interesting ways to talk about some of these things; when writing about G-d's gender, for example, he argued that G-d is not masculine or feminine, but beyond gender and personality; having infinite more of these things than the humans, not less.

But in the end, language will always fail us.

Comment on Parasha Beraisheet by Marc Rudolph

Marc Rudolph — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:38:33 +0000

We are all very flawed,each one of us. Our task is to work to improve ourselves. We need to polish our stars so they can shine as brightly as possible.

Comment on Parasha Beraisheet by Marc Rudolph

Marc Rudolph — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:31:38 +0000

We are all very flawed,each one of us. Our task is to work to improve ourselves. We need to polish our stars so they can shine as brightly as possible.

Comment on Parasha Beraisheet by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:03:26 +0000

What if you ARE yourself and are very flawed and see this but are helpless to be otherwise – in relation.