Judaism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What Are You Looking For?
In Genesis 37:15 we read the story of how Joseph arrived in the town of Shechem in…
That They May Be One
The Public Square It was, if I recall, Evelyn Waugh who wrote about a Catholic gentleman whose…
Buber Without Tears
The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by nahum n. glatzer and paul mendes-flohr…
The Limits of Reconstruction
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan by mel scult wayne state university…
We Are Many
A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America by jack wertheimer basic books, 267 pages, $25 The slogan…
The Ultra-Orthodox
Piety and Power: The World of Jewish Fundamentalism by david landau hill & wang/fsg, 334 pages, $27.50…
After Hell
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America by william b. helmreich…
God in a World of Gods
In North America, and increasingly in Europe, it has become a truism to say that the present…
Jewish Ethics Engaged
Jewish Social Ethics by david novak oxford university press, 252 pages, $39.95 The renowned scholar of Talmudic…
Jesus Through the Eyes of John Rawls
Of late I have been reading John B. Meier’s A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. I…
The Scholar as Polemicist
Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow by hans küng, translated by john bowden crossroad, 753 pages, $39.50 Readers…
Fighting on Three Fronts
Jewish Polemics by arthur hertzberg columbia university press, 259 pages, $27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of…
Judaism and Postmodernity
Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew by eugene borowitz jewish publication society, 319 pages,…
The Bible: Unexamined Commitments of Criticism
Ten years ago I had an experience that made me vividly aware of the two worlds with…
Maritain and the Jews
Shall we look for the deepest impulse toward that monstrosity—Christians who are anti-Semites? They are seeking an…
