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Ritual Practice and Cosmic Order in Hasidism
Leore Sachs- Shmueli | Mayse book resonates with contemporary concerns regarding embodied piety and subjective experience that are relevent to all people seeking a more integrated understanding of the world.
Oct 11


Mary Magdalene and Jesus: Gnostic Union or Deferred Desire?
MARGARET D. KAMITSUKA | Mary Magdalene was tarred with a misogynous and anti-sexuality brush from the start...
Sep 28


Modernity is a Predicament: On Jacob Burckhardt and the Italian Renaissance
Daniel Woolf on A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered History is a peculiar...
Sep 28


The Invisible Fugue: The Poetry and Metaphysics of Ellen Hinsey
LUKE FISCHER | Humanity is caught within the tension of light and dark, heaven and earth, the eternal and time, divinity and mortality. In its philosophical and mystical tenor and its meditations on the relation between the timeless and time...
Sep 28


The Enlightenment's Apocalypse: Harvard, Antisemitism, and the Future of Science
SAMUEL LONCAR | Supersessionism thus fights its enemy not with swords, destined to become ploughshares, but with time itself. The very nature of history is against the Jews, because they have not adapted to the new time inaugurated by Christianity...
Jul 27


The Highest Music: Socrates in Love
SAMUEL LONCAR | Socrates is so important, he is the measure by which we depict historically important individuals, beginning with Jesus of Nazareth...
Jun 1


Eros, the Incarnation, and the Will to Wholly Live
SHANNON CRAIGO-SNELL | Theological attempts to subjugate eros have not prevented harm so much as inculcated shame...
Jun 1


Marxist Modernism and the Crisis of Social Enlightenment: Gillian Rose, the Frankfurt School, and the Dialectic of Culture and Emancipation
NIGEL TUBBS | The members of the Frankfurt School were deeply interested in why social enlightenment failed in Europe...
May 18


Waiting for a Future: Jewish Refugees and Lisbon Cafe Culture
JAN BURZLAFF | Kaplan writes about people trying to stay human in inhuman conditions, of the psychic architecture required to withstand endless deferral...
May 18


Reading the Signs of Jewish Time: The Eschatological Elusiveness of the Apostle Paul
TIM O'LEARY | If we want to make progress towards perceiving Paul with historical accuracy, Mathew Novenson argues in Paul and Judaism: At the End of History, then we must try to identify the source of all this confusion...
May 4


Thinking in Twilight: The Poetry of Hannah Arendt
KELLY M.S. SWOPE | The task for the poet of hard times is to look into the deepest part of the night without recoiling at what he sees...
Apr 20


The Meaningfulness of Being: What Remains Unthought in German Idealism
DENNIS SCHULTING | To be is to be intelligible, to be knowable. Being itself is logos, spirit, or a self-knowing...
Mar 23
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