#berkovits

[shelley-sackett]

Israeli researchers offer new hope for cancer survivors suffering from side effects of treatment

Israeli researchers offer new hope for cancer survivors suffering from side effects of treatment

Emil and and the author, Shelley A. Sackett, shortly before Emil’s death in 2019 at the age of 82. 

By Shelley A. Sackett

  When Emil and Lili Berkovits moved to Boynton Beach, Florida, from Salem, Massachusetts, in 2014, they were excited to start their retirement after Emil’s long career as a cantor.

A fifth-generation hazzan who had emigrated from Czechoslovakia as a young child…

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[cloakedmonk]

The Unnecessary Hazards Of Promiscuous Mystery

The Unnecessary Hazards Of Promiscuous Mystery

As anyone knows who has read any of these “Skeptics” columns, I have very little patience, and even less respect, for that sub-discipline of theology known as theodicy:  the systematic process whereby a theologian attempts to “justify the ways of God to man,” in John Milton’s immortal phrase.  But there is one particular theodical tactic that puzzles me by virtue of its sheer persistence: the…

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[iampeta]

UPDATE!!!!!!!! tumblr update: just had to stop myself from doing a whole friggin' sudoku puzzle on my phone in the liberry w/ laptop, notebook & printout of ch. 4 of eliezer berkovits's faith after the holocaust (looking to describe in my own words berkovits's theodicy, can't wait to start) - also: laptop case, camelbak water bottel, coffee cup containing black tea, sobe smoothie bottle (it's strawberry banana vlafor, yum) & of course louis-ferdinand celine's journey to the end of the night (into which i am now a whopping 75 pages [wow!!]) - sprawled around me in a semicircle. ah well, peace.