Philosophy
Remembering Rochelle Furstenberg: A groundbreaking writer, editor, and literary critic
Rochelle grew up in Chicago, and later moved to New York to continue her studies. Her husband, Prof. Hillel Furstenberg, was born in Berlin and escaped with his family to New York in 1939.
'Echoes of Rashi': Exploring R. Shlomo Yitzhaki's ideas and their relevance today
The West funds its own executioners in ideological war it barely realizes it is fighting - opinion
Serendipitous gifts are all around us: The invisible threads connecting Israelis in times of loss
Dutch philosopher calls Diaspora ‘blessing’, prevented Jews to have power
Hans Achterhuis, the first recipient of the prestigious and royally recognized title of “thinker of the Fatherland,” made the remarks in an interview on the role of religion in the modern state.
Education and democracy in crisis - opinion
In Israel, which is rife with disagreement over what might count as a good life and with those who seek to impose their concepts of the good on others, education should oppose the threat of tyranny.
Remembering Rabbi Dr. Isidore Epstein, Jewish philosopher and thinker
He wrote voluminously. When he retired and we wanted to honor him by means of a bibliography of his writings, he couldn’t remember all that he had written.
Hebraicizing Oedipus
I have become convinced that Freud hijacked the story of Oedipus for his own purposes.
Time to examine the relationship between kabbalah and modern science
The existing literature on science and religion often talks about them contradicting each other, or the necessity to reconcile them. I consider this approach wrong.
'Heaven and Hell': New history of the afterlife shows origins of the idea
Our view of the afterlife isn't from Jews, Christians, but from Homer, Plato, Virgil.
Making sense of Passover (from a non-Jewish point of view)
The Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz described Jewish practices in ways that made sense to me.
The Corona crisis: Where man and God meet
We are already hearing crazy theories that Corona was a Jewish invention, a sinister scenario set up so that Jews would rake in billions when they “just happened” to come out with a vaccination.
Judaism unites East and West
Nagen unpacks the West’s ‘doing,’ East’s ‘being’ approaches
Wassilevsky’s hassidic super-souls
When Wassilevsky described hassidism’s approach to Zion, it seems that contemporary issues were close to his mind; it is not always clear when he is channeling hassidism or speaking in his own voice.
