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Sabbath protest in Jerusalem -- latimes.com
Article summary: "About 3,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated Saturday outside an Intel plant in Jerusalem to protest its operating on the Jewish Sabbath, an action they view as a desecration of the sanctity of the holy city." Hard to imagine a more vivid metaphor fo the clash of "old" versus "new" sensibilities (though putting it that way suggests that haredism is "old," when actually it's pretty modern).
Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question - NYTimes.com
Fascinating article -- a UK court has declared that any definition of Judaism based on descent -- i.e., on whether an individual's mother is Jewish -- is ipso facto discriminatory and thus illegal. The context was an admissions policy for a publicly-funded Jewish school, which had excluded a student applicant because the school's Orthodox policy did not recognize the mother's conversion, conducted in a liberal setting, as valid and thus did not accept the applicant's claim to be Jewish. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?l3q8t and http://www.webcitation.org/5lBnaZcq8
Author:Moses Hess - Wikisource
I'm curious about this guy, who apparently (according to Michael Harrington) writes about so-called "atheistic Christians" in the same vein as Marx's remarks between the "spiritual" state and the "corporeal" civil and economic order. He was sort of the intellectual forefather of Zionism, supposedly.
Karl Marx, "On The Jewish Question (Zur Judenfrage)" (1843)
"Where the political state has attained its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means, and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society, and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated by it."
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Add Sticky NoteThe perfect political state is, by its nature, man’s species-life,
as opposed to his material life. All the preconditions of this egoistic
life continue to exist in
civil society
outside the sphere of the state,
but as qualities of civil society. Where the political state has attained
its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but
in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly
life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a
communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private
individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means,
and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political
state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven
to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society,
and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over
the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having
always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated
by it. In his most immediate reality, in civil society, man is a secular
being. Here, where he regards himself as a real individual, and is so regarded
by others, he is a fictitious phenomenon. In the state, on the other hand,
where man is regarded as a species-being, he is the imaginary member of
an illusory sovereignty, is deprived of his real individual life and endowed
with an unreal universality.- This is a crucial passage for Harrington in The Politics at God's Funeral (1983). - on 2009-10-21
Synagogue-dweller is last remaining Jew in Afghanistan | Mail Online
The article doesn't say much, but the photos are pretty amazing.
The Associated Press: Is Ga. kosher law kosher?
Mark Zimmerman, an Atlanta Conservative rabbi, is suing over a Georgia state regulation that stipulates that kosher certification be awarded according to the "standard of Orthodox Judaism." Orthodox Rabbi Reuven Stein, director of the Atlanta Kashruth Commission, responded that "[t]he purpose of the law is to protect kosher consumers... One of the reasons they chose the Orthodox standard is that it is a standard that everybody agrees on... When you take away protections from people that keep kosher and you're doing it to score political points, you are being anti-religious."
US court: Prison okay to stop man's kosher meals - Israel Jewish Scene, Ynetnews
Here's the article's dek: "Michigan appeals court rejects lawsuit filed by inmate who stopped receiving costly kosher meals at St. Louis Correctional Facility after he being caught buying non-kosher munchies at prison store." Sums it up pretty well. The inmate in question has not received a kosher meal since 2005, apparently.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Dorset | Light sensors cause religious row
See also http://bit.ly/DGflz at the Daily Mail. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5iOjI4yyU
Jewish couple sue neighbours for 'imprisoning' them with automatic hallway light | Mail Online
The story here is that two Orthodox Jewish apartment dwellers (this is in London) are suing their management company because the company installed a motion-sensing light switch in their hallway. They say they cannot trigger the light on the Sabbath without violating the tenets of their religion, that they were assured on leasing the apartment that no motion-sensing devices would be installed, and that they have offered to pay for the installation of an "override switch," whatever that is. Discovered via a very scornful post at Gizmodo, http://bit.ly/6dXIe . Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5iOiUAc3K
Haredim take on anti-fur bill - Israel Jewish Scene, Ynetnews
In Israel, controversy over a bill banning (for humane reasons) the importation of broad classes of "fur and textile products made out of the hair of dogs, cats or rabbits." Haredim fear that this will hurt the market for shtreimel (traditional fur-trimmed hats worn by some ultra-Orthodox groups). Eliezer Moses of United Torah Judaism commented: "We are not in the Middle Ages, when wearing pronounced Jewish symbols was prohibited, and I call on Tirosh and the Ministerial Committee to grant my request and amend the bill accordingly [to allow an exception for imports with religious purposes]."
Matthew Wagner, "Religious Affairs: Jesus's Zionists," Jerusalem Post (April 30, 2009)
On Messianic Jewish Zionists and their role in the IDF.
Ivritype: Alternative Jewish Holiday Toolkits
Contains the text of "A Liberation Haggadah for Passover" (as a PDF) plus a number of other texts.
This I Believe - Judith Warner Blog - NYTimes.com
About Passover, Easter, families, and believing in things. A good read.
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