Judaism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Ultra-Orthodox
Piety and Power: The World of Jewish Fundamentalism by david landau hill & wang/fsg, 334 pages, $27.50…
After Hell
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America by william b. helmreich…
God in a World of Gods
In North America, and increasingly in Europe, it has become a truism to say that the present…
Jewish Ethics Engaged
Jewish Social Ethics by david novak oxford university press, 252 pages, $39.95 The renowned scholar of Talmudic…
Jesus Through the Eyes of John Rawls
Of late I have been reading John B. Meier’s A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. I…
The Scholar as Polemicist
Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow by hans küng, translated by john bowden crossroad, 753 pages, $39.50 Readers…
Fighting on Three Fronts
Jewish Polemics by arthur hertzberg columbia university press, 259 pages, $27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of…
Judaism and Postmodernity
Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew by eugene borowitz jewish publication society, 319 pages,…
The Bible: Unexamined Commitments of Criticism
Ten years ago I had an experience that made me vividly aware of the two worlds with…
Maritain and the Jews
Shall we look for the deepest impulse toward that monstrosity—Christians who are anti-Semites? They are seeking an…
The Banality of Sin
The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian, and Classical Reflections on Human Nature by solomon schimmel free press,…
Messianic Jews: A Troubling Presence
When it comes to Christian-Jewish relations, particularly Christian-Jewish dialogue, the most sensitive issues of all, of course,…
Is Modernity Good for the Jews?
Divided Passions: Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity by paul mendes-flohr wayne state university press, 449…
Christianity in the Mirror of Jewish Thought
What do modern Jewish thinkers make of Christianity? Is Christianity in their eyes still the oppressive, pervasive…
The 1960s Revisited
The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy Of Good Intentions by hillel levine and lawrence…
