Reforming the Palestinian Authority Will Take a Lot More Than a New Prime Minister
Making sense of Mohammad Shtayyeh’s resignation.
February 28, 2024
Proving God’s Existence, the Jewish Way
Do philosophers draw on biblical and rabbinic antecedents?
In the Middle Ages, influenced by the efforts of Muslim theologians, some rabbis began devising arguments for the existence of God. In conversation with J.J. Kimche, Samuel Lebens examines some of these arguments, how they differ from and relate to similar arguments advanced by non-Jewish philosophers, and whether they have antecedents in midrash, the Psalms, and other earlier, decidedly non-philosophical texts.
February 28, 2024
The “New York Times” Finds New Ways to Distort the History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Six professors, but only two opinions.
What Jews Mean to America
Philo-Semitism, anti-Semitism, and the “almost chosen people.”
Proving God’s Existence, the Jewish Way
Do philosophers draw on biblical and rabbinic antecedents?
How a Fake Jewish Countess Saved Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
Janina Spinner Mehlberg.