Comments on: Sunday webcast: “Fundamentalism or Freedom?” http://jewschool.com/2008/05/13/13446/sunday-webcast-fundamentalism-or-freedom/ Progressive Jews & Judaism Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:04:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kung Fu Jew http://jewschool.com/2008/05/13/13446/sunday-webcast-fundamentalism-or-freedom/#comment-306482 Kung Fu Jew Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:15:13 +0000 http://jewschool.com/?p=13446#comment-306482 <a href="http://www.nif.org/webcast/videos.html" rel="nofollow">Here's the video of the panel</a> if you wanted to watch it after the fact. Here’s the video of the panel if you wanted to watch it after the fact.

]]> By: Kari http://jewschool.com/2008/05/13/13446/sunday-webcast-fundamentalism-or-freedom/#comment-304152 Kari Thu, 15 May 2008 19:19:08 +0000 http://jewschool.com/?p=13446#comment-304152 Josh: Let me be naive in peace. :( Josh:

Let me be naive in peace. :(

]]> By: Josh Frankel http://jewschool.com/2008/05/13/13446/sunday-webcast-fundamentalism-or-freedom/#comment-304132 Josh Frankel Thu, 15 May 2008 16:30:53 +0000 http://jewschool.com/?p=13446#comment-304132 - Kari on the contrary, the title Rabbi was probabaly invented by men trying to aggrandize and sieze power from the nobility and the priests. - Kari

on the contrary, the title Rabbi was probabaly invented by men trying to aggrandize and sieze power from the nobility and the priests.

]]> By: Kari http://jewschool.com/2008/05/13/13446/sunday-webcast-fundamentalism-or-freedom/#comment-304052 Kari Wed, 14 May 2008 12:54:50 +0000 http://jewschool.com/?p=13446#comment-304052 I hadn't heard about the latest nonsense from the Rabbanut prior to checking this blog post. I find it typical, in any case. The flash pretty accurately sums up my opinions of Israel right now as well. Sure, the country is beautiful and I wouldn't mind staying briefly if it was in Tel Aviv or one of the other more secular parts of the country, but I would *never* make aliyah unless the State gets its act together and disenfranchises the power-hungry rabbis it employs. Being a rabbi should be about studying Torah and teaching others what you have discovered and offering opinions when the halakha is unclear about something. The role of "rabbi" wasn't invented for men to self-aggrandize and seize political power. I hadn’t heard about the latest nonsense from the Rabbanut prior to checking this blog post. I find it typical, in any case.

The flash pretty accurately sums up my opinions of Israel right now as well.

Sure, the country is beautiful and I wouldn’t mind staying briefly if it was in Tel Aviv or one of the other more secular parts of the country, but I would *never* make aliyah unless the State gets its act together and disenfranchises the power-hungry rabbis it employs.

Being a rabbi should be about studying Torah and teaching others what you have discovered and offering opinions when the halakha is unclear about something. The role of “rabbi” wasn’t invented for men to self-aggrandize and seize political power.

]]> By: sarah naomi http://jewschool.com/2008/05/13/13446/sunday-webcast-fundamentalism-or-freedom/#comment-304012 sarah naomi Tue, 13 May 2008 23:16:34 +0000 http://jewschool.com/?p=13446#comment-304012 The Flash is more like my current opinion of Eretz, Yisroel and why, until I hear otherwise, I will not make aliyah. It's a Theocracy, not a democracy and no theocracy is EVER free. The Flash is more like my current opinion of Eretz, Yisroel and why, until I hear otherwise, I will not make aliyah. It’s a Theocracy, not a democracy and no theocracy is EVER free.

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