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Existential Chutzpah: Lessons in Liberation from the Passover Seder
TOBY HECHT | We are reminded that our suffering and persecution will end. We sing and our cups run over. We toast life and give gratitude..
5 days ago

Conversations on the Plurality of World-views: A Response to Peter Harrison’s Some New World
PHILIP BALL | Conflicts can in fact be tremendously fertile, alerting us to areas where more work is needed . . .
Feb 9

Who Speaks for Science? A Conversation with Erika Lorraine Milam
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...
Nov 8, 2024

The Jane Goodalls: Women in Science Defying the Odds
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | In the last forty years, Jane Goodall has become a saint of modern environmentalism, an unwavering voice calling. . .
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 27, 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. . .
Sep 13, 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?
Jun 7, 2024

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

Sports in Jewish Culture
 IRA GLICK & NEIL EISENBERG | The Jewish problem with athletics literally arose in the locker room.
Mar 1, 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 . . .
Feb 2, 2024
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