Judaism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Jesus Through the Eyes of John Rawls

Gilbert Meilaender

Of late I have been reading John B. Meier’s A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. I…

Fighting on Three Fronts

David Novak

Jewish Polemics by arthur hertzberg columbia university press, 259 pages, $27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of…

The Scholar as Polemicist

Alan L. Mittleman

Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow by hans küng, translated by john bowden crossroad, 753 pages, $39.50 Readers…

Judaism and Postmodernity

Alan L. Mittleman

Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew by eugene borowitz jewish publication society, 319 pages,…

The Bible: Unexamined Commitments of Criticism

Jon D. Levenson

Ten years ago I had an experience that made me vividly aware of the two worlds with…

Maritain and the Jews

Michael Novak

Shall we look for the deepest impulse toward that monstrosity—Christians who are anti-Semites? They are seeking an…

The Banality of Sin

Jacob Neusner

The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian, and Classical Reflections on Human Nature by solomon schimmel free press,…

Messianic Jews: A Troubling Presence

Isaac C. Rottenberg

When it comes to Christian-Jewish relations, particularly Christian-Jewish dialogue, the most sensitive issues of all, of course,…

Is Modernity Good for the Jews?

Steven B. Smith

Divided Passions: Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity by paul mendes-flohr wayne state university press, 449…

Christianity in the Mirror of Jewish Thought

Alan L. Mittleman

What do modern Jewish thinkers make of Christianity? Is Christianity in their eyes still the oppressive, pervasive…

The 1960s Revisited

Edward S. Shapiro

The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy Of Good Intentions by hillel levine and lawrence…

Being Jewish in Public

Jerold S. Auerbach

For a long time, precisely as long as Judaism was marginal to my life, the strict separation…

Letter from Jerusalem

Werner J. Dannhauser

To come to Jerusalem from Paris, or even Tel Aviv, is to succumb to the uncanny feeling…

Editorial: The Year that Conservatism Turned Ugly

The Editors

To judge simply by the responses we have received, a good many readers did not like the…

Editorial: Christians, Jews, and Anti-Semitism

The Editors

Call it a public service. When National Review devoted almost an entire issue to William F. Buckley’s…