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- "Death of Moses Revisited"
Dunston Road Synagogue
Saturday, June 27 at 6:00pm - Death of Moses Revisited
London School of Jewish Studies
Wednesday, June 24 at 3:30pm
Dr. William Kolbrener
Dr. William Kolbrener Planning a Hanuka Event at the Barbur Art Gallery in Nachlaot which will feature a lecture on 'Jews, Greeks, and the End of Universalism'
Dr. William Kolbrener I was asked to write a response to a piece which appeared in Haaretz called - who are Israels ultraorthodox Jews? In the end, it wasn't printed - but it now appears on my blog. Were they right for not publishing it?
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After a considerable hiatus, OMT weighs in on 'Who are Israel's ultraorthodox Jews?'Imagine an extra-terrestrial – or someone from Oslo or maybe Kansas City – who googles ‘ultra-orthodox’ ...
Dr. William Kolbrener Well, out of sight, but not out of mind... Do venturings into the real world - trips, jobs, family - take you out of the world of social networking? Is that a good thing? Or am I just trying to find a way of justify my long absence?
Dr. William Kolbrener Did Tshuva work? The day after: anyone feel better?
Dr. William Kolbrener I had a friend in college who always wanted to get me to listen to a bootleg of Dylan - live at Royal Albert Hall - Was too busy with the Stones, etc, so I never did until years later when it was released... Shame the credits roll on this... But you do get the 'Judas' - sense of betrayl for Dylan going electric... Grea...t moments in Rock n' Roll - shabbat shalom...
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Ending sequence of No Direction Home. Bob Dylan singing Like a Rolling Stone in 1966.
See MoreDr. William Kolbrener Which is more deforming to the human personality - extreme poverty or wealth? I just came back from Mea Shearim - saw both, and it's a toss-up.
Dr. William Kolbrener Tshuva is the one mitzvah that has to be done l'shma. In all the others, we can falsify: use the outer shell of our actions, as way of impersonating who we want to become. But with tshuva, it's got to be real; it's got to be me.
Dr. William Kolbrener Are orthodox Jews fundamentalists? Did I ask that before? Did people answer?
Dr. William Kolbrener And my Tshuva Shiur tonite: Ha Portzim 6 (#3; right entrance), Old Katamon at 8:15
Dr. William Kolbrener So here's the real burning question - how can House go on now that he has resolved his issues: is there life - art - without psychic tension?
Dr. William Kolbrener On Thursday at 8:15, I will be giving a shiur (for those who do not have tickets to the Leonard Cohen concert) on "Forgetting Skeletons in the Closet or Hocus Pocus Salvation?: Yom Kippur, Time and Creative Repentance" For details, please e-mail me at kolbrener@gmail.com
Dr. William Kolbrener Screening of 'One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest' (Jack Nicholson!) tonite at Barbur Institute in Jerusalem. Introductory talk by visiting literary scholar and cultural critic (and friend!), Professor Robert Faggen of Claremont College in California. Barbur is at 6 Shirizli in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Nachlaot - look forward to seeing you there!
Dr. William Kolbrener Tshuva Revolution! - the doo-opps kind of ruin this live version, but there is that edge and intensity at the beginning, as there should be this time of year! Shana tova!
Dr. William Kolbrener Lots of talk these days about authentic Torah, but more pressingly, do I have an authentic self? Can I find it in time for the holidays?
openmindedtorah.blogspot.com
Rosh Hoshana is the anniversary of the creation of man. On the sixth day of the creation, man was inspirited by the divine, and given a soul: 'And the Lord G-d formed man of the dust of the ground, and ...
