Blood Libel: Why is Facebook Permitting Antisemitism?
Paul Franks on Facebook’s Refusal to Remove Hate Speech On 24th March 2020, the Italian artist Giovanni Gasparro posted pictures on Facebook of
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Combating Antisemitism: The Role of Myth
Gilah Kletenik on Antisemitism All of my grandparents came to this country as refugees from antisemitism. My paternal grandmother survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and my
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Jewish Identity and A Divided America
Shari Rabin on Michael Hoberman Public consciousness, popular culture, and historical scholarship have lavished attention and praise on the Lower East Side immigrant
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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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The Many Tales of Joseph Oppenheimer
Joshua Teplitsky on Yair Mintzker Yair Mintzker’s new book on crime, sensation, religious-ethnic difference, power, and perspective could not be more timely. The Many
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Cafe Culture, Judaism, and World Making
Avery Robinson Reviews Shachar Pinsker Well over a century before “pumpkin spice latte” was uttered in Europe, coffeehouses were in the vanguard of Western
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Antisemitism, Adorno, and the Theory of Hate
James Loeffler reflects on antisemitism and intersectionality After last October’s synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, American society responded in predictable fashion: Politicians and communal
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Beyond Supersessionism: Paul Tillich on Judaism
Susannah Heschel Reviews Robert Meditz After reading this excellent study of Paul Tillich, based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, I realized that the
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Do Bible Scholars Need Theology?
Jon D. Levenson on Sommer’s Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition Before beginning my critique of Benjamin Sommer’s new book,
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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious
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