Judaism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
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…
