Judaism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Israel and Anti-Semitism
There are some questions of which we may be exceedingly weary, but they will not go away.…
L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?
You don’t have to be Jewish to drink L’Chaim, to lift a glass “To Life.” Everyone in…
A Jewish Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews:Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianityby paula fredriksenknopf, 320 pages,…
The Social Construction of What?
The Social Construction of What? by ian hacking harvard university press, 272 pages, $34.50 If you suppose…
History as Tragedy
A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939 by david vital oxford university press, 944 pages, $100.08…
In the Tradition…Sort Of
Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics by elliot n. dorff jewish…
Between Liberalism and Orthodoxy
Beyond Reasonable Doubt by louis jacobs littman library of jewish civilizations, 267 pages, $32.95 In 1957, Louis…
Attacking the Tabernacle
For more than two decades, Psalm 139:13 has served as a slogan for the anti-abortion movement, adorning…
Edith Stein, Apostate Saint
The recent canonization of Edith Stein as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by the Roman Catholic…
Nature and Law and Gift
Natural Law in Judaism by david novak cambridge university press, 210 pages, $8.97 I At first glance,…
A Sabbath Meal
Kaddish by leon wieseltier knopf, 588 pages, $13.71 Probably the most important cultural phenomenon in contemporary Jewry…
Is the Left Good for Jews?
Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties by stuart svonkin columbia university press,…
Of Bible Codes and Idols
Just to set the phrase “Torah Code” here evenly spaced at ten characters, I consumed a lot…
The Choosing People
The Vanishing American Jew: in Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century by Alan M. Dershowitz…
Judaism or Jewishness?
Jewish life in America began, at least for the vast majority of Jewish families, in the decision…
