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The Invention of Jewish Theocracy
BY ALEXANDER KAYE | In many quarters today, there appears to be a symbiotic relationship between demagogues peddling ethnic or racial
May 20, 2021


The Christian Origins of Racism
M. LINDSAY KAPLAN | The Jewish “crimes” of killing Jesus and rejecting their divinely imposed subordination develop in popular fictions into a menacing threat against contemporary Christians.
Feb 26, 2021


Medieval Wisdom for Mental Health in COVID-19
JENNA PHILLIPS | In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del Garbo...
Dec 18, 2020


Heinrich Heine: A Life of Contradictions
DAVID BIALE | Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany...
Dec 18, 2020


Moroccan Jews: Perception and Reality
ILAN BENATTAR | The street signs are often tri-lingual: Arabic, French, and Amazigh, the latter being written in the Tifinagh alphabet...
Nov 20, 2020


The Real History of Fake News: An Interview with Vincent DiGirolamo
VINCENT DIGIROLAMO | Vincent DiGirolamo has devoted almost 30 years to documenting the lives of American children who hawked newspapers...
Oct 22, 2020


The Deep Humanity of Jewish Law
ZALMAN ROTHSCHILD | Jewish law considers the topic of doubt worthy of occupying an entire category of law unto itself...
Oct 22, 2020


The Myth of Meritocracy
TIMOTHY LARSEN | Going into the Second World War, schooling was mandatory in Britain only up to age fourteen...
Oct 8, 2020


Demons and Western Psychology: The Unbounded Potential of The Monastic Mind
Daniel Eastman | How were Christian monks in the late antique Near East like modern cognitive psychologists?
May 21, 2020


Susannah Heschel and Shaul Magid on Hasidism: A New History
HESCHEL AND MAGID | The history of Hasidism has been a subject of scholarly interest almost from the time of the emergence of Hasidism...
Apr 9, 2020


Climate Change in the First Age of Globalization
ABIGAIL AGRESTA | In 1961 Twilight Zone episode “The Midnight Sun,” a young artist struggles to survive in her New York apartment as the...
Dec 13, 2019


St. Paul and Islam: A Contemporary Perspective
MATTHEW V. NOVENSON | In this remarkable new commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, Shabbir Akhtar says that no Muslim has...
Nov 29, 2019
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