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Writings | Jesse E. Paikin...
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Jesse E. Paikin…. Thoughts on Jewish ed, rabbinical school, music, Israel, Palestine and more. A selection of my writings published elsewhere:. Vegetarian Tefillin and Finding Humility. Published at Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas, on the conflict between being a vegetarian, yet strapping leather to my arm everyday. The Bedouin of Anatevka. Published at Jewschool.com, an article on the crisis facing Israel’s Bedouin population in the Negev desert. Men Can Be Rabbis? The NFTY Diaspora Action Kit. The fir...
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Photography | Jesse E. Paikin...
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Jesse E. Paikin…. Thoughts on Jewish ed, rabbinical school, music, Israel, Palestine and more. Exhausted Self Portrait Montreal, September 2007. Take a look at some of my photos at photojuice. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Exiled, once again.
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Tradition? Tradition! A response to Rabbi Larry Milder’s “I’m Very Reform” | Jesse E. Paikin...
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Jesse E. Paikin…. Thoughts on Jewish ed, rabbinical school, music, Israel, Palestine and more. A response to Rabbi Larry Milder’s “I’m Very Reform”. A few questions I think about often:. What is “traditional” Judaism? Does any single group or philosophy own the rights to this label? Is it a monolithic concept – i.e. can you open up a book and see the definition of “traditional” Judaism? Did anything come before “traditional” Judaism? What came after it? Where is it located in the world? 8221; which is su...
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Freedom Spoken with a Hebrew Accent: Universalism and Particularism in the Haggadah | Jesse E. Paikin...
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Jesse E. Paikin…. Thoughts on Jewish ed, rabbinical school, music, Israel, Palestine and more. Freedom Spoken with a Hebrew Accent: Universalism and Particularism in the Haggadah. Some thoughts on the universalist and particularist philosophies of the Haggadah, from a paper I wrote last year. You can read the entire paper here. With its comparative study of three different Haggadot (Orthodox, Reform and Israeli). Argued that this philosophical character of Jewish literature can only be described paradoxi...