Kiruv Awareness Network

Becoming a ba'al t'shuva (BT) is a serious matter; it involves considerable study and soul searching. Unfortunately, rampant intellectually dishonesty in Kiruv (Jewish Outreach) makes an informed decision an immense challenge. Consider this blog your due diligence!

General Reference

  • Letter to My Rabbi
  • A List of Some Problematic Issues

Flood

  • Problems with a Global Flood
  • Marc Shapiro on the Flood

Non (yehudim) Jews

  • Judaic sources towards gentiles
  • Gentiles, Rabbis and Texts
  • R. Menachem ha-Meiri
  • Comparative Morality

Lawrence Kelemen

  • Prohibition to Think
  • Explaining the Unclear by the Incomprehensible

Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb & Kuzari Proof

  • Prof David Levene
  • Dreaming Up
  • Chocolate Philosophy
  • Kuzari Argument Critique
  • Kuzari – Principle and Formalism

Science and Torah

  • Science in the Eyes of a Scientist
  • Challenging the Challenge
  • B'Tsel HaTorah
  • To laugh or to cry

Gerald Schroeder

  • Not a Very Big Bang About Genesis
  • Confronted with critique, Schroeder lost voice
  • Flew, Schroeder & Aviezer

Nathan Aviezer

  • Professor Aviezer interprets the Book of Genesis

Bible Codes

  • Mathematicians' Statement on the Bible Codes
  • The Case Against the Codes

Scholars to Read

  • Bondage of the Mind: How Old Testament Fundamentalism Shackles the Mind and Enslaves the Spirit
  • The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs: Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth
  • The Bible Unearthed
  • Archaeology & the Reality of Ancient Israel
  • Understanding Genesis
  • How to Read the Bible

Blogs I read

  • david's harp
  • On the Main Line
  • littlefoxling
  • Rebel Jew
  • Da'as Hedyot
  • Benavuyah
  • Failed Messiah
  • The Kvetcher
  • Orthoprax
  • XGH

Machon Shlomo Blogs

  • Survivors of Machon Shlomo
  • Ba'al Tshuvas Anonymous

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2007 (15)
    • ▼  December (8)
      • Time for a Respite
      • The difficulty of engaging in honest dialogue with...
      • Kiruv, Orthodoxy, and denigration of the wider world
      • Historical and Scientific Scholarship & The imposi...
      • Links to Kuzari Posts
      • Historical Errors: Seder Olam & Chanukah
      • Gadol Hador Archives By Category
      • LETTERS TO A BUDDHIST JEW
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (6)

About Me

Kiruv Awareness Network
If any of what I've written here has meaning for you or makes sense to you then I hope you'll feel free to write to me. I'll do my best to respond. kiruvnetwork@hushmail.com
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Monday, December 17, 2007

Historical Errors: Seder Olam & Chanukah

Seder Olam-discrepancy between a chronological view of the Talmud and chronological view by historians

Professor D.S. Levine
Letter to My Rabbi-Judaic tradition unaware of its own history
FIXING THE MIND



Blog Posts on the Historicity of Chanuka
The True Meaning of Chanukah by Mis-nagid - the Bais Yosef's Kasha
WHY DOES CHANUKAH HAVE 8 DAYS?
The Little Menorah That Didn't
The Little Menorah That Didn't, #2
The Little Menorah That Didn't, #3
The Little Menorah That Didn't, #4
The Little Menorah That Didn't, Part 3
The Little Menorah That Didn't, part 4
The Little Menorah That Didn't, Part 5
Hanukka: The Faith of a Suicide Bomber Maccabee?
Hanukka: Did The Maccabees Make It All Up?
Hanukka 2006: What's The Truth About Sources For The "Miracle Of Oil"?
Hanukka 2006: How Ignorant Are Haredim? This Ignorant
The Rebbe And The Menorah
The Rebbe And The Menorah, #2
An Early Hanukka Present: The Rebbe and the Menora, Part 2

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