James Baldwin: Witnessing in Dark Times
Jamil W. Drake on Eddie S. Glaude On May 16, 1969, James Baldwin appeared as a guest on the Dick Cavett Show. Live
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Homosexuality and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy
Paola Tartakoff on Tamar Herzig Jewish converts to Christianity have long evoked visceral responses from Christians and Jews. Many Christians have viewed converts
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When Secular Laws and Religious Convictions Collide
Perry Dane on religious freedom, current conflicts, and Martin Buber The recent challenges by some churches and synagogues to COVID related state restrictions
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The Christian Origins of Racism
M. Lindsay Kaplan on Antisemitism to Racism Medieval claims about the Jews’ criminal role in the crucifixion consigned them to an enslaved status,
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Monastic Reform in the 12th Century
Kevin Lord on Alison Beach The late eleventh and early twelfth centuries in the Holy Roman Empire were a period of dynamism and
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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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Medieval Wisdom for Mental Health in COVID-19
Jenna Phillips on Boccaccio in Quarantine In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del
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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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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 Real History of Fake News: An Interview with Vincent DiGirolamo
Eve M. Kahn Interviews Vincent DiGirolamo Vincent DiGirolamo has devoted almost 30 years to documenting the lives of American children who hawked newspapers
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