Judaism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

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…

Confessions of a Rootless Cosmopolitan Jew

Stephen Miller

I, the grandson of devout Orthodox Jews, am watching my younger daughter being confirmed in the Lutheran…

Reform Judaism: Undone by Revival

Jakob J. Petuchowski

In the 1950s, only some forty years ago, the voice of rejoicing and salvation could be heard…

A Rabbi’s Christmas

Jakob J. Petuchowski

In order not to raise false hopes in the hearts of those who still have the expectation…

A Protestant Shtetl

Benjamin McArthur

Just east of Chattanooga, four miles north of the Georgia state line and six miles up the…

Is Egalitarianism Good for the Jews?

Aaron Wildavsky

Apall hangs over the American debate about equality. It is becoming difficult for people to speak their…

When Jews Are Christians

David Novak

I By now it is obvious that in the past twenty-five years or so there has been…