…halakha is currently paying a steep price for Orthodoxy’s exclusion of the queer community. Halakha’s *discriminatory attitude toward the gay community alienates […]
As both a scholar and an academic politician, Neusner moved the study of Judaism from Near Eastern Language or History departments into […]
A mature adult faith demands that we take in difficult, painful facts and allow them to become part of our understandings of […]
The roots of traditionalism lie in Mizrachi Judaism. In the Orient, instead of the dichotomy between religiosity and secularism, there arose a […]
The fact that Oz is an outspoken opponent of occupation and the policies required to attend to it cements his bona fides […]
…custom, even when considered obligatory, derives its authority from the practice of either a community or a family; if misrepresented as a […]
The topic of “tzniut” or “modesty” has recently become a prominent point of discussion in the Jewish community, mostly in response recent […]
Change can be very slow, even inadvertent, in Jewish tradition. Present-day academies of Talmudic scholarship have much more in common with their […]
Universalist ideas were central to Jewish authors living in the Second Temple period, and to the readers who read and circulated these […]
We tend to think of the consecutive developments of Greek philosophy, normative Judaism, and early Christianity as being exclusive to one another. […]
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