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Israel

“With the erosion of ethnic boundaries in Israel, and the mixing of different traditions to form a more general ‘Israeliness’, traditionalism has become mainstream”

The roots of traditionalism lie in Mizrachi Judaism. In the Orient, instead of the...

Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Zionism

The fact that Oz is an outspoken opponent of occupation and the policies required...

Judaism

…custom, even when considered obligatory, derives its authority from the practice of either a...

Babylonian Talmud, Judaism, Rabbinic Literature

The topic of “tzniut” or “modesty” has recently become a prominent point of discussion...

Judaism

Change can be very slow, even inadvertent, in Jewish tradition. Present-day academies of Talmudic...

Judaism, Late Antiquity, Religion

Universalist ideas were central to Jewish authors living in the Second Temple period, and...

Judaism, Late Antiquity

We tend to think of the consecutive developments of Greek philosophy, normative Judaism, and...

Christianity

Scholars who have argued that early Christians were influenced by Stoic thought miss a...

Religion

Universalism has nothing to do with welcoming converts into one’s faith community, which actually...

Bible, Jews, Judaism

The story the Torah tells us about itself is that the way of life...