Small Resurrections: Makoto Fujimura’s Call to Create
Alexandra Barylski on Makoto Fujimura Making begins in love. Where there is love, there is abundance. Even in suffering. And Makoto Fujimura understands
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Religious Freedom: An American Ideal
Tisa Wenger on Jack Rakove W hat comes to mind when you hear the words “religious freedom?” Who and what, in practice, has
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The Future of Hasidic Williamsburg
Jonathan Boyarin on Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper, Nomi Stolzenberg, and David Myers I f you’ve recently driven along Route 17 in Orange County,
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Climate Change: From Gilgamesh to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Sophus Helle on Martin Puchner F or the past four years, two tracks have run through my life. One is Gilgamesh, an epic
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The Mystery of Making: Makoto Fujimura’s Theology of Hope
Leah Silvieus on Makoto Fujimura I first encountered Van Gogh’s The Church in Auvers–sur-Oise amid a spiritual crisis the summer I turned 21.
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Poems of Fire: The Vision of Makoto Fujimura
Samuel Loncar on Makoto Fujimura W e live everyday on the brink of the abyss. Artists feel this. They smell darkness, inhale light.
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Five Women Anthropologists Who Defied The Status Quo
Timothy Larsen on Frances Larson The first generation of women anthropologists set out to live markedly different lives from their chaperoned and sheltered
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The Past and Future of Jewish Christianity
Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Matt Jackson-McCabe “Imagine a scholar of New Testament and Early Christianity who went to sleep on the eve of
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A Lost Feminist Vision? The Case of Mary Wollstonecraft
Emily Dumler-Winckler on Erika Bachiochi In March of 2018, two artists and their models were unveiled as finalists for the honorary statue of
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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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