An American Retreat from Syria Will Bring Disaster
Repeating Barack Obama’s mistakes.
December 21, 2018
The Neo-Hasidism of Hillel Zeitlin
A universalist doctrine for the modern era.
In the 1920s and 30s, a number of Jewish thinkers from outside the ḥasidic world—most prominently Martin Buber—began to mine ḥasidic teachings and practices as a source for spiritual renewal, seeking to make Judaism relevant, in their minds, in an increasingly secular era. Historians refer to their ideas as “neo-Ḥasidism.” Among the most influential of these in his own time was Hillel Zeitlin (1871-1942), who, unlike Buber, was himself raised in a ḥasidic family in Eastern Europe. Ariel Evan Mayse describes Zeitlin’s intellectual development:
December 21, 2018
Hamas Can’t Disrupt Flights to Tel Aviv—Unless the West Cooperates
A lesson from 2014.
Zionism Is about a Nation, Not about a Race
The mistake of comparisons with either black nationalism or white supremacism.
The Conclusion of the Joseph Story Helps Explain Rabbinic Teachings about Repentance
Changing the past.
The Neo-Hasidism of Hillel Zeitlin
A universalist doctrine for the modern era.