The Gang's All Here
I’ve always liked to be in situations where the whole gang was here. . .
25 Jan 202311min
Unwrapping the Gift of the Jews
What’s the gift of the Jews? It’s to live with God chronologically. Is that all? Is that anything? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City University ...
20 Jan 202312min
Michael Wyschogrod
When the Jewish Review of Books arrived, I noticed with pleasure the cover article,“Michael Wyschogrod and the Challenge of God’s Scandalous Love.” Good! I thought. Michael is being attended to and ...
18 Jan 202310min
Landscapes of the Heart
When we first moved to Bucks County, I used to go into New York once a week to “get my identity back.” . . . Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City Uni...
13 Jan 202312min
Final Proofs
He’d been working in D.C., living in Alexandria with me as newly-wed wife, running a higher ed organization and pretty much minding his own business when he … heard God’s voice. I mean voice! And I me...
11 Jan 20237min
Nostalgia and Yearning
For most of my life, I’ve lived under a low-hanging cloud of yearning. The Germans call it Sehnsucht. It’s romantic longing for a fog-enshrouded, mystery-enfolded, beckoning future. . . Abigail L. R...
6 Jan 202312min
Birthday
The way you can tell that “I” don’t choose these topics (but respond – as if to an inner prompt) is instanced here: why would anyone (over twenty one) choose that one? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Prof...
4 Jan 202310min
Philosophical Gossip
A powerful thinker wrestles with questions that are in the air, arising partly from the cultural or historical circumstances that surround him or her. But philosophers are not just historical characte...
30 Dec 202215min
