Chanted Prayers in Early Hasidism
Aubrey Glazer on Moshe Idel and Ariel Mayse “There’s blaze of light in every word, doesn’t matter which one you heard, the cold
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Jewish History
The Religion of Economics
Benedikt Koehler on the Enlightenment, Religion, and Mosaic Economics The Enlightenment purged economics of religion. This began when John Locke claimed that everyone
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Heinrich Heine: A Life of Contradictions
David Biale on George Prochnik Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany. While Moses Mendelssohn achieved fame
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Moroccan Jews: Perception and Reality
Ilan Benattar on Emily Benichou Gottreich The street signs are often tri-lingual: Arabic, French, and Amazigh, the latter being written in the Tifinagh
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The Deep Humanity of Jewish Law
Zalman Rothschild on Moshe Halbertal Jewish law considers the topic of doubt worthy of occupying an entire category of law unto itself, and
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Jews and The Red Scare: The Mythology of Judeo-Bolshevism
Elissa Bemporad on Paul Hanebrink Well-known scholars of Soviet history have failed to understand Jewish experience under communism in the early twentieth century.
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Jewish Identity and A Divided America
Shari Rabin on Michael Hoberman Public consciousness, popular culture, and historical scholarship have lavished attention and praise on the Lower East Side immigrant
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St. Augustine’s Jews and the Undeserving Poor
Azzan Yadin-Israel on the vilification of the poor That the Republican Party has championed laws hostile to the poor is more a factual
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Israel and Palestine in the Age of Trump
Yair Wallach on Seth Anziska In early June 2018, in an interview to the BBC in London, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed relaxed
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Heidegger and the Holocaust
Re-Thinking Martin Heidegger, the Jews, and Judaism: Shaul Magid on Elliot Wolfson’s The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other Martin
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