The Secret Life of Saturn: Melancholia and the Warburg Institute
P.S. Makhlouf on a classic reissued A pernicious threat looms on the horizon. If, following Marsilio Ficino’s prescriptions, you are sure to arise
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Toward A Better Eternity: COVID-19 and The Recovery of Time
Ahmed Elbenni on COVID-19 Lately, I’ve taken to counting in Fridays. It’s been ten Fridays since the coronavirus made my body home and
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Establishing Truth That’s Trusted in the Gospels and Today
Ramsay MacMullen A front-page feature of the NY Times Science section recently (March 3, 2020) explained how social animals, from primates down through
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The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender: A Forum
The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender: A Forum An Introduction Nina Caputo (University of Florida) Contributors Who Speaks for the Jews? Latin
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Hasidism Forum: A New History
Hasidism: A Forum This forum is dedicated to our friend and colleague Professor Tzippi Kauffman who left this world much too early. She
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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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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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From Medieval Brilliance to Modern Beauty
Natalie Jones on the Melody of Love One of the most defining characteristics of medieval mystical writing is its use and style of
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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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After Orientalism: The Muslim Left Today
Thomas Greene reviews With Stones in Our Hands The photograph is iconic: a 14-year-old Palestinian boy stands on a dirt road facing an
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