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Animal Wisdom: The Voice of the Serpent

David Klinghoffer — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:56:33 +0000

Our family watched Jaws together the other evening -- which, in case you're wondering, I regard as responsible parenting since our kids are basically too young to be genuinely scared by the film. The whole rest of the next day, two-year-old Saul was chattering about the "shark teeth." "Shark teeth get the blooood," he called me up (with Mom's help) several times at the office to remind me. Anyway, there was some sentiment among the kids that the shark was the villain, that it was "bad." I...

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Reading Wesley Smith: Why the Darwin Debate Matters

David Klinghoffer — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:07:12 +0000

If the intelligent-design side in the evolution debate doesn't receive the support you might expect from people who should be allies, that may be because they haven't grasped why the whole thing matters so urgently. I got an email recently from a journalist whom I'd queried on the subject. "All told, I'm on the ID side of the debate," he wrote, "but it isn't a pressing interest for me."Anyone who similarly doesn't quite "get it" should read my friend and colleague Wesley J. Smith's new and...

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The Mission of the Jews

David Klinghoffer — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:14:16 +0000

Don't miss my essay over at First Things on the mission of the Jews to the world. This, I think, the key idea that the Jewish community needs to absorb at this very unusual cultural moment, for the time is so, so right. Non-Jews are waiting for us to fulfill the roll God gave us in the Torah. Please tell me what you think by commenting here, there, or both.Excerpt:You will often hear Jews say, with pride, that...

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Darwin at the Mountains of Madness: Evolution & the Occult

David Klinghoffer — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:04:11 +0000

Of all the regrettable cultural forces that Darwinism helped unleash, perhaps the most surprising and seemingly unlikely is its role in sparking the creation of modern occultism. Charles Darwin himself could not have been less interested in the topic. But no attempt to assess the scope of his legacy can properly leave out the muse-like role his theory played in...

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Why Women Will Never Be Orthodox Rabbis

David Klinghoffer — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:10:06 +0000

I have sympathy for religious mavericks like Rabbi Avi Weiss of New York, who for ordaining a woman as a rabbi, or "rabba" as he calls her, is under fire from Orthodox rabbinic colleagues on the Rabbinical Council of America. To be Avi Weiss takes guts. Unfortunately for him, as the New York Jewish Week's Jonathan Mark is anticipating, his gutsiness could result in Rabbi Weiss's expulsion from...

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For Orthodox Jews, a Wake-Up Call from God

David Klinghoffer — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:22:17 +0000

My Forward op-ed is out now seeking the meaning behind the scandals that have plagued my religious community, Orthodox Judaism, with increasing intensity of late. The first comment over at the Forward website illustrates the extent to which many of us Orthodox Jews don't seem to get what the problem is. A "Rabbi Dr. Rosenberg" complains, "There are good, bad and ugly among all peoples. Do not...

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J.R.R. Tolkien & C.S. Lewis — on Jews!

David Klinghoffer — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:12:17 +0000

I'd never heard these two wonderful anecdotes, reported in a review by Michael Weingrad in the brand new (and quite impressive) Jewish Review of Books:Although it might seem unlikely that anyone would wonder whether the author of The Lord of the Rings was Jewish, the Nazis took no chances. When the publishing firm of Ruetten & Loening was negotiating with J. R. R. Tolkien over a German...

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Fools for Faith

David Klinghoffer — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:56:52 +0000

The Torah emphasized in last week's reading, Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19), that the Tabernacle in the desert was to be held up by planks of acacia, or shittim, wood. Hasidic tradition notes that the verbal root on which that Hebrew word is built appears also in the word for foolishness, shtut. The Talmud has it that sin is committed through foolishness. But more benignly, a willingness to be found foolish is an...

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Glenn Beck’s Turbulent Soul

David Klinghoffer — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:28:20 +0000

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