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SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s surprising work, Qol Qore, is a Hebrew commentary to the Gospels

A forum on Alexander Kaye's The Invention of Jewish Theocracy.

YEHUDAH MIRSKY | Alexander Kaye’s book stands at the confluence of three different scholarly traditions...

BY YEHUDAH MIRSKY | Alexander Kaye’s book stands at the confluence of three different scholarly traditions.

BY DAVID S. KATZ | Professor Kaye begins his book with a quotation from Ya’akov Ne’eman (1939-2017), when just appointed again

BY SHAYNA WEISS | In Alexander Kaye’s masterful The Invention of Jewish Theocracy, we learn that Rabbi Isaac Herzog was especially concerned

BY ALEXANDER KAYE | In many quarters today, there appears to be a symbiotic relationship between demagogues peddling ethnic or racial

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.

ZALMAN ROTHSCHILD | Jewish law considers the topic of doubt worthy of occupying an entire category of law unto itself...

HESCHEL AND MAGID | The history of Hasidism has been a subject of scholarly interest almost from the time of the emergence of Hasidism...

ELISSA BEMPORAD | Well-known scholars of Soviet history have failed to understand Jewish experience under communism in the early...

SHARI RABIN | Public consciousness, popular culture, and historical scholarship have lavished attention and praise on...