34 posts categorized "Torah & Science"
April 30, 2008: God TheComments: 90 | Categories: Religion , Science , Torah & Science
…Dr. Ayala, a former Dominican priest, said he told his audiences not just that evolution is a well-corroborated scientific theory, but also that belief in evolution does not rule out belief in God. In fact, he said, evolution “is more...
January 17, 2008: And Our Fathers Worshiped Idols
Comments: 63 | Categories: History , Israel , Torah & Science
In a dig sponsored by the Shalem Center, Dr. Eilat Mazar has found a seal from a prominent Jewish family mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah. But there may be a huge problem, at least if you are a Torah-believing...
June 19, 2007: Sir Isaac Newton On The Jerusalem Temple
Comments: 14 | Categories: History , Torah & Science
[Click either image to enlarge.] The father of modern science Sir Isaac Newton (remember the apple falling from the tree?) was also a millenarian and a theologian (he thought the world would end in 2060). Above is a page from...
May 27, 2007: Evolution Treife?
Comments: 55 | Categories: Ethics , Israel , Torah & Science
Writing in Ynet, Yitzhak Kakun complains about the 'secularization' of Shavuot that is becoming increasingly common in Israel. Secular Israelis gather in lecture halls and theaters to listen to and participate in discussions about Jewish history, Zionism, the origin of...
February 23, 2007: More From Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Torah & Science
Luke Ford has a report (including audio) of a panel of rabbis responding to challenges to Orthodoxy from Dennis Prager. Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein was one of these rabbis, and Luke has assembled a few choice quotes for us. [I added...
January 21, 2007: Did Moses Exist?
Comments: 34 | Categories: History , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
The new Encyclopedia Judaica is not so sure, citing the work of historians, archeologists and others. YU's Rabbi Shalom Carmy responds this way: Orthodox Rabbi Shalom Carmy of New York's Yeshiva University grants that historians have so far found no...
January 20, 2007: Rabbi Avi Shafran On Torah & Science
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Torah & Science
Agudah spokesman Rabbi Avi Shafran wrote a book on Judaism, Jewthink: A Guide To Real Judaism for the Thinking Individual, Hermon Press, 1977, which is a collection of apologetics meant to defend Judaism from, among other things, the challenges of...
January 11, 2007: Why Orthodox Judaism Fails
Comments: 18 | Categories: Bans , Dirty Tricks , Haredim , Torah & Science
Rabbi Without A Cause, the RCA-affiliated rabbi so loved by Rabbi Gil Student (and so ridiculed by many of Gil's readers and by me) has this to say about the behavior of the 'gedolim' in the Rabbi Slifkin Ban: [L]abelling...
November 8, 2006: Paul Shaviv On Rabbi Slifkin, The Age of the Universe, Chabad and Haredim
Comments: 14 | Categories: Bans , Books , Chabad , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
Paul Shaviv writes: Whether we read the tangled tales of our “founding family,” or the mystical account of the origins of morality in the Garden of Eden, Genesis has always been the most engaging and the most challenging of the...
September 22, 2006: BARUCH DYAN HAEMET: Rabbi Aryeh Carmel, ztz"l
Comments: 0 | Categories: Torah & Science
Rabbi Aryeh Carmel, an exponent of rational Orthodox Judaism and a pioneer in Torah-science discussion, passed away yesterday. Rabbi Carmel was a strong backer of Rabbi Natan Slifkin and a pioneer of outreach to non-Orthodox Jews.
August 25, 2006: Dennis Prager's Rabbi Slifkin Interview On Web
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
You can listen to Dennis Prager's recent interview with Rabbi Natan Slifkin here. [Hat tip: LA Yid.]
August 25, 2006: YU's New Dean of Students On Torah and Science
Comments: 2 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
The NY Jewish Week interviews YU's new Dean of Students, Dr. David Srolovitz, who was appointed in June. Previously, Srolovitz, renowned for his scientific research in computational materials science, was chairman of Princeton University’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering:...
August 23, 2006: The Haredi Takeover and YU's Cowardice
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
The Canadian Jewish News has published the first of a two part series on inter-Orthodox tension in Toronto. The article is stunning, both for its clarity and for the candidness of the interviewed subjects. First, we have Rabbi Shlomo Miller,...
August 22, 2006: Rabbi Slifkin Live On Dennis Prager NOW
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bans , Torah & Science
Rabbi Natan Slifkin is live on Dennis Prager's radio show as I write this at 1:15 CDT. You can listen (live streaming only – no archived content) on the web here.
August 20, 2006: GUEST POST: THESE ARE NOT THE BUILDERS BUT THE DESTROYERS (Talmud Yerushalmi Hagiga 76c) - An open response to the misuse of miracles in support of a Young Earth
Comments: 13 | Categories: Guest Posts , Torah & Science
By Shmuel Bergenfeld Recently, there has been an argument presented by quite a few respected rabbis and their assistants in defense of the alleged Torah viewpoint of a <6000 year old universe. This argument, in a nutshell, states that all...
August 18, 2006: BeliefNet Interview With Rabbi Natan Slifkin; Klinghoffer Politely Skewered
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
Rabbi Natan Slifkin, the now-banned author whose earlier books so traumatized haredi gedolim, is interviewed by Steven I. Weiss for BeliefNet: I can't speak for Yeshiva University or anyone else, but many rabbis believe, like me, that [the Discovery Institute...
August 16, 2006: The Rabbi Slifkin Controversy Returns
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Religion , Torah & Science
Rabbi Gil Student has piece in this week's Jewish Press summarizing the events of the Rabbi Slifkin Ban. Two points Student makes are especially important. Here's one: The ban, as it stands, raises many difficult questions for a large segment...
August 10, 2006: Christopher Hitchens on God and Science
Comments: 5 | Categories: Torah & Science
I agree with the faithful in one respect, and would myself say if I was a believer: We have no right to demand or to expect an explanation from the inventor, and our expectations of ever getting one, let alone...
August 4, 2006: Satmar Newspaper Runs Ad Comparing Cell Phones To Holocaust: "Auschwitz 5766" (2006)
Comments: 4 | Categories: Haredim , Torah & Science
The Jewish Week reports on the ad and the reaction. Steven I. Weiss has posted a scan of the ad that ran in Der Yid.
July 26, 2006: The Bible Told Them So – Waaaaay After The Fact
Comments: 8 | Categories: Religion , Torah & Science
Mike. S. Adams writes on the newly Evangelical-controlled TownHall.com: Astrophysicist Hugh Ross helped me—through his brilliant writings—to compile a list that illustrates how authors of the Bible have remained far ahead of the scientists throughout the ages: Leviticus 17:11 says,...
July 13, 2006: Has The Exodus Been Proved True? Has Mount Sinai Been Found? Has The Exodus Been "Decoded"
Comments: 2 | Categories: Outreach , Religion , Science , Torah & Science
My old friend Simcha Jacobovici, the investigative journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker has teamed up with James Cameron, the award-winning director of Titanic, to a make a $3.5 million documentary that purports to prove the Exodus from Egypt actually happened....
May 9, 2006: Stone Age Tools Found In Jerusalem
Comments: 3 | Categories: Israel , Torah & Science
Tools dating to the Middle Paleolithic Period have been found in Jerusalem. This means man lived in the area 100,000 years ago (or, in haredi terms, 5760 years ago). Technorati Tags: Israel, science, Torah
May 9, 2006: Bad News For Water Buffalos
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Torah & Science
Rabbi Amar examines a severed water buffalo head for front teeth. Bad news for water buffalos. Responding to a request from Dr. Ari Zivotofsky, Israel's Chief Rabbinate has declared water buffalo meat kosher. Matthew Wagner reports: As required by the...
May 9, 2006: Haredi Judaism Is False
Comments: 3 | Categories: Haredim , Torah & Science
GodolHador writes: Unfortunately, and it pains me to say this, Chareidi Judaism no longer stands for emmes. Chareidi Judaism is sheker incarnate. I love the Chareidi passionate commitment to Halachah, to learning and to Judaism. But any commitment based on...
May 7, 2006: The Archeological Divide
Comments: 16 | Categories: Israel , Torah & Science
The Smithsonian Magazine has an article on the extremes within Israeli archeology. At its most conservative is Adam Zertal, who is a Biblical literalist. Zertal believes he has found the altar Joshua built after crossing the Jordan river. But is...
April 12, 2006: Rabbi Saul Berman: Bans Make A Mockery Out Of Judaism
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bans , Torah & Science
Rabbi Saul Berman of Edah on today's gedolim and bans: The current anti-scientific climate makes a mockery of Judaism's constant search for truth. The very idea that rabbis might excommunicate people for teaching that the world is more than 5766...
April 10, 2006: Treife Electric Shavers
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Torah & Science
KosherShaver.org is a website dedicated to publicizing the ruling of many gedolim that electric shavers with a lift and cut system (like Norelco) are not 'kosher' unless the lifters are removed. Rabbi Abadi refutes this (see the message board there)...
February 7, 2006: The Association Of Orthodox Jewish Scientists Goes Over The Edge
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bans , Torah & Science
The association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, once the proud home of giants like Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, ztz"l, has apparently morphed into a bizarre collection of haredi apologists and wannabees. As GodolHador notes (hat tip: me, yours truly, the anti-Mendel), calling...
January 22, 2006: Quiz
Comments: 8 | Categories: Torah & Science
Choose the answer that is the closest to the empirical truth: The universe is: A) 15 billion years old. B) Less than 6000 years old. C) I'd prefer not to know. Human beings first walked on this earth: A) 50,000...
January 22, 2006: Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblum Lies About Evolution
Comments: 23 | Categories: Haredim , Torah & Science
Am Echad was founded by Agudath Israel's Rabbi Moshe Sherer to fight the idea of "streams" or denominations in Judaism. Only one legitimate form of Judaism exists according to Rabbi Sherer's ideology – haredi. Everything that is not ultra-Orthodox is...
January 19, 2006: Chabad And Evolution
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Torah & Science
The DesertNews has a report surveying the beliefs of various religions regarding evolution. All mention have degrees of flexibility. The most liberal, like the Catholic Church, openly endorse evolution and see the first chapters of Genesis as allegory. The least...
January 4, 2006: Marc Shapiro On The Age Of The Universe
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
…[T]he entire received body of knowledge in just about every field of human study is dependant on the fact that the world is not 5000 years old and that there was not a flood. These facts are the fundamentals of...
January 3, 2006: Evolutionary Trivia
Comments: 5 | Categories: Torah & Science
The Economist reports (this is not online unless one is a premium subscriber) that the oldest beads found to date are approximately 75,000 years old. Is that the date of the first clothes, as well? Mark Stoneking and colleagues from...
August 4, 2004: Just A Note
Comments: 4 | Categories: Torah & Science
Most posts in the Rabbi Slifkin Book Ban category also fit into this newer category, Torah and Science, which I am adding today, January 2, 2006. (This post is dated August 4, 2004 in order to retain an accurate record...
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