Does Jewish Logic Necessarily Lead to Israel?
Jacob Abolafia on the existential and political character of 20th-century American Jewish life O you youths, western youths, So impatient, full of action,
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Jews and Muslims in France: Rethinking a History of Conflict, Colonialism, and Coexistence – by Rachel Eva Schley
Rachel Schley on Ethan B. Katz’s The Burdens of Brotherhood For well over a decade there has been an active debate about the
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The Importance of Premillennialism – By Dan Hummel
Dan Hummel on Matthew Sutton’s American Apocalypse In 1970, an ex-tugboat captain and self-described prophecy expert named Hal Lindsey published The Late Great
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Possible Moralities in Impossible Times – By Saskia Coenen Snyder
Saskia Coenen Snyder on Bernard Wasserstein’s The Ambiguity of Virtue The behavior of the Jewish Councils, the administrative bodies appointed by the Germans
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The Logic of God: A New Look at an Old Reason to Believe – By Joshua Rasmussen
Joshua Rasmussen on A.D. Smith’s Anselm’s Other Argument Can belief in God be based upon reason? Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033-1109) thought so.
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A Deep Earthquake: Late Antique Sexuality and the Rise of Christianity – By Susanna Drake
Susanna Drake on Kyle Harper’s From Shame to Sin Anyone who has ever visited an exhibit of ancient Greek or Roman art is familiar
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Imagining Life Beyond Capital – By Joerg Rieger
Joerg Rieger on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century There may be no more important topic to discuss at present than that
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A Unified Reading of Maimonides’ Guide – By Dani Rabinowitz
Dani Rabinowitz on Josef Stern’s The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide Moses Maimonides (1135 – 1204), born in Córdoba during the twilight
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Anti-Semitism and the Evolving Catholic Conscience
Martin Menke on John Connelly’s From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews New histories of the Shoah provoke
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To Whom is the Qur’an Addressed? – By Whitney S. Bodman
Whitney S. Bodman responds to Rachel Friedman I appreciate the effort involved in Rachel Friedman’s review of my new book, but I would
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