@OMTorah and @Dodidd Auden, "September 1, 1939" https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939Locke, "Essay Concerning Toleration," http://files.libertyfund.org/files/2375/Locke_1560_EBk_v6.0.pdf

Election Edition: Waiting for the Dawn - Ep 11

Nov 3rd, 2020 14m 14s

Viewing the U.S. election from an Israeli university classroom

Reading the Book of Martyrs

Oct 27th, 2020 15m 31s

Is the mass denial of vulnerability and pain related to an inability to read, communicate, and feel? How a poetic sensibility and a facility for language could help heal the rifts within society and the psyche.Discussed: Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Does the Humanities Covenant Still Hold? On a New Academic Year in Israel Ep 9

Oct 19th, 2020 17m 58s

Death Drive and Repetition Compulsion: Religious Fanaticism in Israel's Second Wave - Ep 8

Oct 12th, 2020 20m 14s

The compulsion to repeat has brought us back to where we began with fundamental Jews at the heard of Israel's second wave of the coronavirus. We discuss this video: https://www.kikar.co.il/375859.htmlAnd this concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Heretics in Truth Ep 7 - Endless Summer of Corona

Aug 6th, 2020 22m 13s

Cultural literacy, emotional literacy: the great costs of cutting the underperforming humanities in corona-torn Israel. And the hostility born of crisis in the public and private spheres. Can Israel be a cradle of what comes next in the evoluti

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - the future and past of Jewish humanist grief (Ep 6)

Jul 23rd, 2020 21m 3s

How does time warp during crisis?What is the language with which to speak about pain? "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" -- on the future and past of grief from a Jewish humanist perspective during the endless summer of corona.

Episode 5 - Corona in Thebes

Jun 25th, 2020 22m 18s

Ignorance, self-understanding, and the imbalance that begets plague. From Oedipus, to Darwin, to Milton (of course): on time in the moment and the deep epoch.

Ep 4 - What is novel about this crisis?

Jun 3rd, 2020 13m 50s

What does change feel like when lived in real time? What does the fraying of America look like when observed from afar? Episode 4 of Heretics in Truth

Ep 3 "This could feel like home": a Muslim student on enrolling at Israeli university and reading English during Ramadan

May 19th, 2020 24m 5s

Hasan Hajj from Tayibe joins Professor William Kolbrener and Dr. Daniel Feldman of Bar-Ilan U. to share his experience as a Muslim observing Ramadan and studying English literature at a university in Israel.Let us know your thoughts:@OMTorah @d

Episode 2 - The Heresy of Reading

May 4th, 2020 19m 59s

What does it mean to be a "heretic in truth"? Bill Kolbrener and Daniel Feldman discuss John Milton's Areopagitica on truth and dissent, the stakes of reading, and how to recognize bad teaching.Milton's Areopagitica: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~

The Liberal Arts in Israel - Heretics in Truth - ep. 1

Apr 27th, 2020 19m 29s

On the eve of Israeli 72nd Independence Day, the first Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzamut under corona, Bill Kolbrener and Daniel Feldman discuss the state of the liberal arts in Israel. Thoughts? Join our conversation at @OMTorah and @dodiddHere

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