tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post111886922106216779..comments2023-10-29T11:50:25.742+02:00Comments on My Obiter Dicta: Torah UMadda: ReallyJeffrey R. Woolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1120049654859983562005-06-29T15:54:00.000+03:002005-06-29T15:54:00.000+03:00I'm sorry, but I just don't see how literature wil...I'm sorry, but I just don't see how literature will save the kippot. Warping the kippot (a la http://hitnatkut.meimad.org.il/) is not the same as saving them. Better for the kippah to fall off than to misrepresent and twist its message like this http://hitnatkut.meimad.org.il/<BR/><BR/>http://hitnatkut.meimad.org.il/ is a product of Literature and the Humanities - not the hard sciencesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1119344311209280042005-06-21T11:58:00.000+03:002005-06-21T11:58:00.000+03:00Halevai. The problem is that the neglect of the Hu...Halevai. The problem is that the neglect of the Humanities and most of the Social Sciences is now policy at Bar Ilan.Jeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1119261642506031522005-06-20T13:00:00.000+03:002005-06-20T13:00:00.000+03:00Maybe Bar-Ilan can start us off with somewhat of a...Maybe Bar-Ilan can start us off with somewhat of a liberal arts program. This is a problem in Israel generally. We (I first and foremost) condemn the rabbis for their lack of education, how much more so the engineers, scientists and businessmen, who stop reading right after the literature bagrut.Hashoukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08980042421107163800noreply@blogger.com