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The annual ritual: countries that don't publicly recognize Israel's existence line up for its help.
September 26, 2017
In Accepting Aristotle’s Ethical Doctrines, Did Maimonides Contradict the Jewish Idea of Repentance?
The conflicting ideals of virtue and law.
One of the great tensions in Western moral philosophy is between the Aristotelian ideal of ethics based on the cultivation of proper moral virtue and the Jewish understanding of ethics as adherence to commandments. As a devotee of both Aristotle and the Talmud, Moses Maimonides tried repeatedly to reconcile the two approaches. But, argues Abraham Socher, Maimonides leaves unresolved the incompatibility between Aristotelian ethics and the Jewish ideal of t’shuvah (“repentance,” or, more literally, “return”), so central to the Days of Awe—even though he himself wrote one of the most penetrating expositions of this ideal. Socher explains:
September 26, 2017
For Israel, Egypt’s Attempt to Reconcile Rival Palestinian Leaders Changes Nothing
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In Accepting Aristotle’s Ethical Doctrines, Did Maimonides Contradict the Jewish Idea of Repentance?
The conflicting ideals of virtue and law.
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Mainline Protestant Churches Take Up the Anti-Israel Cause
“The Israeli occupation of Palestinian land is a sin against God and humanity.”