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Praying with Jesus, not to Jesus: Martin Buber in Dialogue with Christianity Title: Praying with Jesus, not to Jesus Subtitle: Martin Buber in Dialogue with Christianity Subject Classification: Religion and Faith BIC Classification: HR, HRC BISAC Classification: REL017000, REL040000, REL113000 Binding: Hardback, eBook Planned publication date: Jan 2026 ISBN (Hardback): 978-1...

supporting hamas, supporting netanyahu. supporting trump, supporting stein. the wisdom of the spanish thinker josé ortega y gasset, as usual, describes and explains the pathology: "being on the left is, like being on the right, one of the infinite ways that man can choose to be an imbecile."

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this lecture by Paul Mendes-Flohr is, in my opinion, the deepest and clearest exposition of the relationship between the philosophies of martin buber and martin heidegger. undoubtedly, only Paul Mendes-Flohr could explore this topic with both scholarship and grace.

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Martin Buber and Martin Heidegger in Dialogue, Paul Mendes-Flohr Paul Mendes-Flohr's major research interests include modern Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought, philosophy of religi...

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In Memoriam: Paul Mendes-Flohr z'l Martin Buber and Eastern Wisdom Teachings: The Recovery of the Spiritual Imagination. Dialogical Ecology and Zen Buddhism

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In Memoriam - Paul Menses-Flohr Martin Buber and Eastern Wisdom Teachings: The Recovery of the Spiritual Imagination. Dialogical Ecology and Zen Buddhism

Paul Mendes-Flohr, a friend, a man of love and peace, a teacher, and the preeminent Buber scholar and biographer in the world, has passed away early today in Jerusalem. His invitation for me to write an essay on Buber and Eastern Wisdom for his companion book to the 100 year publication of Buber's "I and Thou" was, for me, the highlight of my life-long intellectual and spiritual explorations. It is not possible to ascertain how much wonderful and exciting scholarship is now lost to the world. But it is even harder to describe how gentle and how caring a human being Paul Mendes-Flohr was. A rare good person never really dies.

May Paul's memory be a blessing.

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gustavo gutierrez, the "father" of liberation theology, passed away. this day my thoughts are clear but not happy. when i was a youngster in my native buenos aires, as the son of jewish refugees from eastern europe, i sought to define for myself an inner identity that could not divide the individual content of my being, from my social engagement with the other. i believed that to be the essence of my spiritual ancestry. at that time my progressive/leftist comrades derided me as a reactionary for rejecting the che guevara's armed struggle in favor of non-violent resistance. i also rejected all religions and all unfounded beliefs in god or divinities and their official self-appointed bureaucrats. i decided to build my intellectual world on four pillars: gandhi, buber, thich nhat hanh and martin luther king. later on i came to know mandela and gutierrez, bonhoeffer, heschel, ambedkar and doris day. the poets machado and pessoa, the enigmatic dogen and selected sufi quotes. but in the end, in a clear and unambiguous fashion, history rebuffed my beliefs and showed me the door to the infertile fields of irrelevance. as history has it, rather than satyagraha we have "by all means necessary," instead of a free and secular republic of jews and arabs we have islamist excused terrorism and jewish-messianist excused war crimes. thich nhat hanh became an all-inclusive summer retreats in idyllic settings for the meditating anxiety-ridden white upper classes, martin luther king's dream has been replaced by trumpist dark nightmares, and then of course, rodriguez's liberation theology never took off in the face of church opposition. today we see progressives allying themselves with religious fascists, fake socialists ruling by despotism and deceit over impoverished and depressed nations, g**s exhibiting a massive stockholm syndrome, and the land of israel/ palestine is disputed by political parties on both sides of the border neither of which has a right to exist. i will miss gutierrez, but my strength to miss his message has already been spent.

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Field Workshop on Ancient and Present-Day Religious Practices in Goa, (India) and its environs Martin Buber and Eastern Wisdom Teachings: The Recovery of the Spiritual Imagination. Dialogical Ecology and Zen Buddhism

i think it was a good idea when it was decided to avoid political discussions on this forum. i am all in favor of writers and artists and people in the arts to get involved in political struggles, but that should be a separate and distinct forum. i myself belong to three of them. however (there is always a however, isn't it?) since the subject of israel/palestine has been raised, i'd like to add a point of importance: it is not antisemitism to criticize the policies of the state of israel, but when israel is singled out from within an ocean of current genocides, apartheids and oppressions, it is reasonable to assume that blindness toward the suffering of the many but anger toward the victims of israel is motivated by a degree of latent bigotry and racism. what is needed is a world coalition against religious nationalism, within every existing religion. that is to say, we must oppose and condemn every agent in that deplorable field, not only one of them. we must oppose the current government of israel, the hamas, the hezbollah, the mullahs of iran, the mullahs of afghanistan, the houthis, the trump maga cultists, and others like it. the ngo "genocide watch" lists 10 genocides presently carried out by governments together with true apartheid by race and gender. most of those states are supporting south africa in the international court of justice! it is hard to find a display of anger, such as demonstrations, against any of those criminal states. again, except in regards to israel. the other fundamental point is to understand that opposing the policies of the israeli government should never be confused with the right of existence of the state of israel. much of the protests against the war in gaza are carried out by the usual denialists, and those, without exception, are racists and bigots. every child killed is a crime against humanity, every child, regardless of race, even if they are israelis in the villages along the gaza border. i was recently asked to make a comment to a spanish newspaper on this matter and this is the translated version. (of course, thank you for listening;) "october 7, 2023: a day in which religious nationalist fascism raised his head to eternal ignominy. the hamas pogrom had no connection to the legitimate rights of the palestinian people, nor was it related to the ideological malfeasance called “settler colonialism.” those jubilant crowds celebrating their crimes dare to chant that god is great and march with their index finger pointing to heavens. they are not religious celebrants, they are 21st century soldiers in a religious war against infidels. true religious people who sincerely believe that god is great and there is only one god, will never unleash the fury of a death cult against another human being, and will never become fanatics of hatred. jews celebrating the deaths in gaza have ipso-facto resigned any claim to jewishness. we can and we must still believe in the national rights of the palestinian people and in the national rights of the jewish people. two nations, one border, under god with liberty and justice for all. after a full year of insanity and immorality, the hostages must be freed at once, and the war in gaza must end without further delays. despite the messianic lunacy and superstitious beliefs that oppose a free palestine and a free israel across both sides of the border, we can and we must still believe that peace will prevail."

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Friends, the publisher of my latest book has just informed me that the soft cover edition has become available. The book is available for purchase directly from the publishers, (in both hard and soft covers versions) as well as at Amazon and others such. The publisher's link to the book is this: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8030-5. 🙏

an excellent, profound and exuberant literary accomplishment. available on amazon.

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If interested in the topic, please see the schedule of my presentation in the attached agenda. The conference will be streamed online.

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International Conference "From Shtetl to Post – Jewish Town" | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie The conference will explore how shtetls like Opatów became post-Jewish towns.