tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post6162944258420954014..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Punk'd by a Jew, continuedCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-24274696840306979422010-03-19T05:41:16.653-04:002010-03-19T05:41:16.653-04:00Thanks, PunkTorah, for your comment. By left-leani...Thanks, PunkTorah, for your comment. By left-leaning (which in my vocabulary is a compliment) I really meant socially active, interested in tikkun olam through the betterment of lives -- Jewish and non-Jewish -- in the here and now.<br /><br />But I take your point!Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-87015811780434626642010-03-18T16:14:14.967-04:002010-03-18T16:14:14.967-04:00Hey Jeffrey Cohen, thanks for the comment about Pu...Hey Jeffrey Cohen, thanks for the comment about PunkTorah.com. I will say, however, that I disagree with your assessment of our organization.<br /><br />PunkTorah is independent Jewish spirituality.<br /><br />A non-profit organization (501c3 pending), we are the only organization in the world that is interested in helping people develop spiritually through Judaism without any biases or hidden agenda.<br /><br />I wouldn't say that we use left-wing politics because we are a spirituality, not political organization. <br /><br />But thanks for the nod!PunkTorahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084412576927930233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-9503842111079640952010-03-03T12:50:43.503-05:002010-03-03T12:50:43.503-05:00I think we will be exploring many of the same them...I think we will be exploring many of the same themes, Sarah! <a href="http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2008/02/for-your-sunday-amusement.html" rel="nofollow">And here's an ancient comment from Karl I often come back to</a>, certainly an important part of the conversation we've had at ITM.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-79905526517603145482010-03-03T12:22:44.451-05:002010-03-03T12:22:44.451-05:00i don't quite know how to frame my own talk fo...i don't quite know how to frame my own talk for 1190. On the one hand I know an awful lot of stuff and detail about topography - on the other have strong feelings about the remaking of public emotional communities.<br /><br />What sticks most is the kind of diachronic inevitablism of much topographical and social local history. The insistence on evolution - on ever becoming closer to us. By contrast I think a lot of what happened in the 12th century was soon undone. That there were lots of dead-ends (quite literally), accidents, travesties, and reversals of fortune and many new things some of which survived and grew old some of which died almost as soon as they were born - and all this was only later on tidied up into a seamless history.<br /><br />Ok - maybe I have just written the beginning of my talk - or at least the beginning of the beginning ...<br />have a feeling now that I wrote something like this somewhere here before<br />thanks for being my dictaphoneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com