Misreading the Legacy of Yitzḥak Rabin
Thanks to him, left and right have switched sides.
December 29, 2015
Telling the Jewish Story from the Inside
The birth of Jewish studies.
The academic discipline of Jewish studies first came into being in the early 19th century, propelled by dissatisfaction with Gentile accounts of Judaism and Jewish history. For intellectual ammunition, the founders of the new discipline went to the archives: the collections of rare printed books and manuscripts of which an abundance existed in Germany. Ismar Schorsch tells how these collections came to be identified, catalogued, and studied:
December 29, 2015
Pope Francis Rejects 1,500 Years of Catholic Anti-Zionism
A fundamental reversal.
Is “Islamophilia” a Greater Problem than “Islamophobia”?
Turning Islam into a new taboo.
Telling the Jewish Story from the Inside
The birth of Jewish studies.
Needed: A New Vision for Conservative Judaism
Ill-defined movements are not growing ones.