Here’s a happy update – written for the Lab/Shul community and/or the rest of my friends who care to know: I arrived in Israel on Jan. 6 with my family, excited for our adventure : Half a year’s worth of a sabbatical in Israel. Why? it’s a long story but suffice to say that […]
Amichai Lau-Lavie, Jerusalem, July 2012 Half way through his lecture, the Czech professor, 83, starts to sing, quietly, but with feeling, a melody he remembers from a night in Birkenau, 68 years ago. This is happening at an academic conference, and the singing is a bit weird and some people are clearly uncomfortable, and […]
In summer 2012 I enrolled at a JTS summer course: Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Jewish Thinking. The course enabled me to focus on several philosophical, historical, aesthetic and theological issues related to this complex topic. I wrote several papers examining some of these issues. This is the fourth essay – exploring the startling theological (and thealogical […]
In summer 2012 I enrolled at a JTS summer course: Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Jewish Thinking. The course enabled me to focus on several philosophical, historical, aesthetic and theological issues related to this complex topic. I wrote several papers examining some of these issues. This is the third essay – exploring the choice to be silent […]
In summer 2012 I enrolled at a JTS summer course: Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Jewish Thinking. The course enabled me to focus on several philosophical, historical, aesthetic and theological issues related to this complex topic. I wrote several papers examining some of these issues. This is the second essay – exploring the choice to hope – […]
