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Dec 6, 2023
Orthodox Feminism: A Contradiction in Terms?
LEAH ALPERN | Was the work feminist? Was it Orthodox? Was the combination a contradiction in terms?

Nov 10, 2023
Secrets of Time: The Pursuit of Divine Wisdom and The Dead Sea Scrolls
SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | The book’s focus on the pursuit of hidden wisdom and the quest to overcome human limitations . . .

Nov 10, 2023
Kingdom of Darkness: Challenging the Master-Narrative of Modernization
DANIEL WOOLF | The titular “kingdom of darkness” derives from a biblical phrase originally referencing Satan’s dominion and . . .


Oct 27, 2023
Dostoyevsky: Prophet and Radical Visionary for an Apocalyptic Future
VIKA PECHERSKY | Dostoyevsky belonged to a rare group of thinkers who never submitted themselves to the crude power of the facts of life. .


Oct 13, 2023
Language, Emotions, and The Desire to Exist
AQSA IJAZ | This paradox of feeling – both elusive and demanding of expression – weaves the narrative of our inner landscapes..


Sep 29, 2023
Diaspora, Zionism, and the No-State Solution
DANIEL B. SCHWARTZ | Daniel Boyarin has made a career out of denaturalizing concepts like Judaism and religion.


Sep 28, 2023
Single Evangelical Women and Church Experience
LEA TARAGIN-ZELLER | The book charts the importance of evangelicalism for many single women, especially those living in fragmented urban...


Sep 15, 2023
How Do Humans Make Progress?
DANIEL WOOLF | It’s difficult to dispute that the human species has done, and continues to do, unintelligent things. Not only individually


Sep 14, 2023
Jewish Chess Masters, Religion, and Mental Health
NEIL EISENBERG & IRA D. GLICK | Given the lack of prohibition by Maimonides and the outright recommendation by the Sefer Hassidim, chess...


Jun 22, 2023
Indigenous Cultures and the Imperial History of Britain’s Empire
MADELINE GRIMM | Historians have long struggled to tell the complete story of the British empire,


Jun 8, 2023
Charting the Atlas of the Heart: Why Humans Need a Language of Emotions
THOMAS HARRISON | The vastness of the human sea of feelings is what first inspires this literary journey,


Jun 8, 2023
Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years
JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, the book
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