http://www.articledashboard.com/Category/Philosophy/120 Philosophy articles from Article Dashboard Rss Follow Up Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:44:26 -0500 In a shift unheard of since pre-Nazi Europe, multitudes of Hungarians took to the polls last week in support of an extreme neo-Nazi party. As often happens in times of economic meltdown and general woe, far-right parties (representing anti-Semitic and racist views) come out on top. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Far-Right-Gains-Shock-Hungarian-Jewish-Community/938580 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Far-Right-Gains-Shock-Hungarian-Jewish-Community/938580 Derbent’s Jewish community recently celebrated a ground-breakingceremony for the construction a new synagogue. Home to one of Russia’soldest Jewish communities, the city counts some 8000 Jews today, underthe leadership of its Chief Rabbi Ovadya Isaakov, a Chabad-Lubavitchrepresentative. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/New-Synagogue-to-Rise-in-Derbent/932917 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/New-Synagogue-to-Rise-in-Derbent/932917 While the investigation into the disappearance of Air France Flight 447 continues, and inquiries about the 228 passengers and crew membersabound, the Jewish community of Paris has confirmed knowledge of one ofthe passengers. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Passenger-of-Air-France-447--Member-of-French-Jewish-Community/919905 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Passenger-of-Air-France-447--Member-of-French-Jewish-Community/919905 Everyone is different. Each person has different opinions, tastes, and motivations. As a result, not everyone learns in the same style. Techniques for studying that work wonders for one student, may be completely ineffective with another student. That is why it is so important for parents, tutors, and the students themselves to know the learning style of their children so they can help the student achieve academic success. There are four distinct learning styles. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/How-to-Improve-Your-Child-s-Study-Skills-by-Discovering-Their-Learning-Style/911394 Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/How-to-Improve-Your-Child-s-Study-Skills-by-Discovering-Their-Learning-Style/911394 We can identify the zeitgeist as a major force that casts a veil of illusion over humanitys thinking. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/An-Historical-Perspective--from-No-to-Yes-in-7-Words/903696 Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/An-Historical-Perspective--from-No-to-Yes-in-7-Words/903696 Skin moles are considered by many to be a blemish or even a birthmark - but in the Chinese culture they believe it is a way to tell us the kind of people they are and the lives they will have. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/How-The-Chinese-Culture-Read-Skin-Moles/902636 Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/How-The-Chinese-Culture-Read-Skin-Moles/902636 After the trophies and closing ceremonies at last week’s World School Chess Championship in Thessaloniki, Greece, the Israeli and Iranian teams met with their coaches and local Chabad Rabbi Yoel Kaplan to talk chess and peace. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Israeli--Iranian-Children-Get-Acquainted-At-World-Chess-Championship/888015 Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Israeli--Iranian-Children-Get-Acquainted-At-World-Chess-Championship/888015 Such a daily achievement on the part of thousands of men would seem to the savage to show a race of beings who, although quite crazy, yet possessed superhuman and miraculous powers to an astounding degree, and an abnormal strength in order to stand it at all. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/The-Impossible-Becomes-Possible/871204 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/The-Impossible-Becomes-Possible/871204 South Africans are facing the unknown, again. Following new president, Jacob Zuma’s triumph last week, many in the broader Jewish community are trying to decipher their place in this ever-changing land. More than 30 years ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe encouraged the community to stay put, stating that, “South Africa will be good for the Jews until Moshiach comes.” Today, despite widespread concern, his 40 Chabad representatives stationed throughout the country are ensuring that his pledge remain true.   http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Diamond-in-the-Rough/871153 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Diamond-in-the-Rough/871153 In this advance review, Shmuel Klatzkin looks at Channeling the Divine and Feminine Faith, two new translations of Chasidic works written by the fourth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch, and part of the Chasidic Heritage Series. CHANNELING THE DIVINE (82 pp)FEMININE FAITH (84 pp)Kehot Publication SocietyRelease date: May 2009 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Books--Meditations-on-Mitzvot/869163 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Books--Meditations-on-Mitzvot/869163 Communities in Israel and around the world are commemorating the deaths of six million Jews on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. But for the steadily dwindling generation who survived those horrific years, Holocaust Remembrance is a daily experience. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Remembering-Every-Day/855972 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Remembering-Every-Day/855972 When the lights dimmed at Congregation B’nai Avraham Sunday night, the audience settled in with fresh popcorn and coke, for a night at the movies. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Take-Two--Chabad-at-the-Movies/812672 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Take-Two--Chabad-at-the-Movies/812672 The objective of political critique is, or has always traditionally been, to uncover instances of domination of individuals by forces of power in the present and to ascertain the possibility of securing individual freedom from domination in the future. This essay comprises the first part of a longer study whose intention was to establish the utility of Michel Foucaults critical method as a mode of political critique. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Foucault--History-and-the-War-on-Terror/809358 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Foucault--History-and-the-War-on-Terror/809358 On June 21, 2002 Israel soldier Kfir Levy’s Givati unit was operating in the Gaza strip, responding to terrorist rocket strikes and artillery fire, when a rocket-propelled grenade designed for use against armored vehicles and buildings struck him directly in the face. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Challenge-Aspen-Chabad-Project-Welcomes-Disabled-Israeli-Soldiers/809294 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Challenge-Aspen-Chabad-Project-Welcomes-Disabled-Israeli-Soldiers/809294 Back in 1897, when two Lower East Side rabbis tried to bless the “newsun”—a once-in-28-years Jewish ritual event—they got in trouble withthe law. According to a report in the New York Times dated April 8,1897, a local police officer became alarmed by a crowd of “Hebrews”that had converged on Tompkins Square at 8 a.m. without a permit. Therabbis, transplants from Europe, were unsuccessful in their attempts toexplain this obscure tradition in broken English to an Irish policeofficer, leaving him more suspicious than curious. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Sunrise-------112-Years-Later/807496 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Sunrise-------112-Years-Later/807496 From the way Rabbi Moshe Meir Lipszyc greets an endless stream of visitors to the Chabad center and the Kabbalah Café in Ft. Lauderdale, one would never guess that the 45 year old father of five, among them children with special needs, has twice battled cancer and continues to struggle with his own health while working creatively to build and grow Jewish life in the area. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/In-Conversation--Rabbi-Moshe-Meir-Lipszyc/803924 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/In-Conversation--Rabbi-Moshe-Meir-Lipszyc/803924 If you are person who is interested in understanding the philosophy terms then finding the reliable philosophy dictionary will be highly beneficial. It does not necessarily be useful only to the scholars or teachers; even a common person can realize the hidden virtues and wisdom of these philosophy terms. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Are-You-Looking-for-the-Best-Online-Philosophy-Dictionary-/794413 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Are-You-Looking-for-the-Best-Online-Philosophy-Dictionary-/794413 A donkey, her foal, and a pig lived in a barnyard. The foal complained to her mother that the pig was fed generously although it did nothing all day, while she and her mother worked hard all day bearing heavy burdens yet received more moderate amounts of food, . “Do not be jealous,” said the donkey. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Purim-Thoughts--The-Donkey--The-Foal-and-The-Pig/781890 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Purim-Thoughts--The-Donkey--The-Foal-and-The-Pig/781890 The Jewish festival of Purim begins sundown on Monday, but thecelebrations and preparations in Israel have been underway since thestart of the month. Candy displays and colorful costumes of characters,modern and ancient have filled the shop windows for weeks. Days beforethe holiday, young and old costumed characters—pirates, superheroes,princesses and cowboys—take  to the streets with parades, parties andcarnivals. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Purim-Starts-Early-for-Israel-and-Chabad/781475 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Purim-Starts-Early-for-Israel-and-Chabad/781475 It is nearly 70 years since the start of the systematic, state-sponsored murder of over six million European Jews. Today, with anti-Semitism on a global rise and Holocaust deniers stridently espousing their hate, survivors are facing their own enemy: loneliness and depression. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/In-Late-Life--Isolated-Holocaust-Survivors-Find-New-Friends/771137 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/In-Late-Life--Isolated-Holocaust-Survivors-Find-New-Friends/771137 Showing how God may bring to pass his destiny for one's life, the author illustrates how George Washington came into his partly through his half-brothers 'misfortunes'. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Someone-Else-s-Misfortune/770881 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Someone-Else-s-Misfortune/770881 These aren’t easy times for Chabad to be opening new centers, but Australia’s capital city, Canberra, welcomed its first Chabad representatives this week. Rabbi Dan and Mrs. Naomi Avital moved into their new home Tuesday, after a pilot trip and meetings with the city’s lay leaders last month. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/First-Chabad-Center-Opens-in-Canberra--Australia/769854 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/First-Chabad-Center-Opens-in-Canberra--Australia/769854 The waxing and waning of the moon is regularly celebrated in Jewishlife. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle, familiar toJewish children even as preschoolers who learn to welcome the new moonwith regular Rosh Chodesh celebrations. In a popular depiction byJewish painters, a minyan of men stand outside the shtetl shul andbless the new moon under a dark sky http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Once-in-a-Rare-Sun--Birkat-Hachamah/761514 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Once-in-a-Rare-Sun--Birkat-Hachamah/761514 If following the reading of the conclusion of The Elimination of Morality, bioethicists say that they are fine with it and that they are indeed not moral experts in search for the verdict, the effort sustained throughout her book does not seem to make much sense anymore. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/The-Elimination-of-Morality/756413 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/The-Elimination-of-Morality/756413 Kehot Publication Society recently published a new classic, Pirkei Avot - Ethics of the Fathers Memorial Edition. The book is a tribute to the memories of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg who were murdered by terrorists in their Chabad House in Mumbai. Translated and compiled by Rabbi Yossi Marcus, the work includes a commentary on the Mishnaic tractate of Pirkei Avot, anthologized from classic commentators and Chasidic masters. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Books--Ethics-to-Live-By/751056 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Books--Ethics-to-Live-By/751056