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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Religion
Preserving Religious Freedoms in a Pluralistic Society
John Inazu on Robert Louis Wilken The Supreme Court has strengthened an important constitutional protection for religious institutions. Known as the ministerial exception,
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Bari Weiss Says Wear Your Kippah
Ari Blaff on Bari Weiss Fighting anti-Semitism rarely comes with fashion advice. However, The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss suggests otherwise in
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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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People of The Books: Qur’an and The Bible
Stephen Burge on Gabriel Reynolds Gabriel Reynolds’ The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary, is a handsomely produced volume, and an intriguing
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Grieving The Gods: Spirituality At The End of An Age
Keith Hackwood on Peter Kingsley Catafalque. A word to conjure with. Velvety on the tongue but dark and inclined downward somehow; formed in
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The Pursuit of Kierkegaardian Virtue
Thomas J. Millay on Sylvia Walsh In November of 2013, Sylvia Walsh delivered a lecture on Kierkegaard and virtue at Baylor University that
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Secularism as A New Religion
Evan Kuehn on Todd Weir Many people take the idea as mere common sense: as societies advance, religion declines. This is the secularization
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Death at the Border: A Theologian’s Perspective on Migration
Paul Giffiths’ Monthly Column on Politics and Society from a Christian Perspective This short essay, the first of an occasional series for publication
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Understanding the Arab World Between Language and Culture
Lawrence Rosen on Tim Mackintosh-Smith A civil war rages outside Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s window, trapping him in his Sana’a, Yemen home. This travel writer, expatriate,
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