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Nov 22, 2024
Print Culture, Kabbalah, and Popularizing Jewish Mysticism
AVRAHAM ORIAH KELMAN | Prophetic visions, vast accounts of reincarnations, mythic conceptions of cyclical time, and messianic aspirations—


Oct 11, 2024
Art and Eros: A Classic Persian Poem Reimagined
AQSA IJAZ | the story of Majnun and his maddening love for his young school mate Layla has inspired artists in most powerful ways. Whether t

Sep 27, 2024
The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution
MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .

Sep 13, 2024
There Will Be Music Despite Everything
STEVEN E. ASCHHEIM | Time’s Echo is about the painful but also potentially liberating interactions between culture and catastrophe.

Sep 13, 2024
Redeemable Humanity
DANIEL WOOLF | Apart from the stories she tells, Bakewell builds a case for remembering—even in the shadow of Auschwitz, Rwanda, 9/11. . .

Jun 22, 2024
Apocalypse Now: The Revolt Against Auto-Genocide
SAMUEL LONCAR | Anthropocene antihumanism and transhumanism seek the end of humanity. They are auto-genocidal philosophies. . .

Jun 7, 2024
Moral Decisions and Desired Outcomes: The Diverse Histories of Consequentialism
GIJS KRUIJTZER | Does the question of the origin of consequentialism matter to the question of how desirable a tool it is to us now?

Apr 26, 2024
A New Anarchism
ARTHUR BRAVO | Activism and activists of all persuasions stand to benefit from a mutually dynamic dialogue between theory and practice.

Apr 12, 2024
Seeking Nietzsche
Steven E. Aschheim | No singular Nietzschean paradigm has ever utterly dominated the philosophical, political and cultural landscape.

Mar 15, 2024
Marilynne Robinson in the World of the Patriarchs
TIMOTHY LARSEN | For the Bible to speak to our world it has to be set in it, acknowledging the reality of the worst evils that befall us...

Mar 15, 2024
Biotech, Nuclear War, and the Singularity: Humanity in 2054
Technological and scientific progress often have a fraught relationship with religion. . .

Feb 2, 2024
Philanthropy in Ancient Judaism and Why it Matters Today
SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | Studying how ancient sources conceive and legislate wealth, poverty, and charity highlights the extent . . .
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