Judaism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Nature and Law and Gift

Edward T. Oakes

Natural Law in Judaism by david novak cambridge university press, 210 pages, $8.97 I At first glance,…

A Sabbath Meal

David Novak

Kaddish by leon wieseltier knopf, 588 pages, $13.71 Probably the most important cultural phenomenon in contemporary Jewry…

Is the Left Good for Jews?

Edward S. Shapiro

Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties by stuart svonkin columbia university press,…

Of Bible Codes and Idols

Benjamin Wittes

Just to set the phrase “Torah Code” here evenly spaced at ten characters, I consumed a lot…

The Choosing People

Gary Rosen

The Vanishing American Jew: in Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century by Alan M. Dershowitz…

Judaism or Jewishness?

Elliot Abrams

Jewish life in America began, at least for the vast majority of Jewish families, in the decision…

What Are You Looking For?

Marc Gellman

In Genesis 37:15 we read the story of how Joseph arrived in the town of Shechem in…

That They May Be One

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square It was, if I recall, Evelyn Waugh who wrote about a Catholic gentleman whose…

Buber Without Tears

Werner J. Dannhauser

The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by nahum n. glatzer and paul mendes-flohr…

The Limits of Reconstruction

Lawrence Grossman

Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan by mel scult wayne state university…

We Are Many

Edward S. Shapiro

A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America by jack wertheimer basic books, 267 pages, $25 The slogan…

The Ultra-Orthodox

Mark Miller

Piety and Power: The World of Jewish Fundamentalism by david landau hill & wang/fsg, 334 pages, $27.50…

After Hell

Amity Shlaes

Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America by william b. helmreich…

God in a World of Gods

Peter L. Berger

In North America, and increasingly in Europe, it has become a truism to say that the present…

Jewish Ethics Engaged

Edward T. Oakes

Jewish Social Ethics by david novak oxford university press, 252 pages, $39.95 The renowned scholar of Talmudic…