Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Yonah Diamond http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:14:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 McGill’s Judith Butler Controversy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mcgills-judith-butler-controversy/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mcgills-judith-butler-controversy/#comments Tue, 28 May 2013 19:12:50 +0000 Yonah Diamond http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=130482 Dear Professor Butler, Mazel tov on being awarded an honorary doctorate by McGill at this year’s Arts Graduation. When I first heard that you were one of the recipients for the award, I was impressed by your contributions to the fields of queer theory and feminist philosophy; two areas which move beyond the abstract intellectual [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mcgills-judith-butler-controversy/feed/ 4 When the life of a Jew clicks http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-the-life-of-a-jew-clicks/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-the-life-of-a-jew-clicks/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:55:48 +0000 Yonah Diamond http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=114554 There are times when life just clicks, intellectually, morally and religiously. These are the moments when I feel that just maybe there is some intentional being watching over us. And yet, it is precisely a variant of this idea that was troubling me in the weeks leading up to Passover. I started thinking that outside [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-the-life-of-a-jew-clicks/feed/ 0 A Paradigm Shift on Jewish Solidarity http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-paradigm-shift-on-jewish-solidarity-2/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-paradigm-shift-on-jewish-solidarity-2/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:44:24 +0000 Yonah Diamond http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=80638 It has been a disconcerting reality for me to grow up noticing that the Jewish community displays most cohesion and solidarity in times of crisis. What binds us are times of duress, or when we feel ostracized by the outside community. A few years ago, for instance, I remember having a conversation with a Jewish [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-paradigm-shift-on-jewish-solidarity-2/feed/ 5 My internship in a foreign country http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-internship-in-a-foreign-country/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-internship-in-a-foreign-country/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:46:37 +0000 Yonah Diamond http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=57952 One of my first nights here, at the basketball courts, I found two other fellows waiting to play in the next game. They asked me to join their team and, unfamiliar with the environment, I gladly obliged. I noticed that they were speaking a language unlike the dominant one here, and was excited to see [...]

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