Judaism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

In the Tradition…Sort Of

David Novak

Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics.By Elliot N. Dorff.Jewish Publication Society.…

Between Liberalism and Orthodoxy

Jon D. Levenson

Beyond Reasonable Doubt.By Louis Jacobs.Littman Library od Jewish Civilizzations. 267 pp. $39.50. In 1957, Louis Jacobs, a…

Attacking the Tabernacle

Peter J. Leithart

For more than two decades, Psalm 139:13 has served as a slogan for the anti-abortion movement, adorning…

Edith Stein, Apostate Saint

David Novak

The recent canonization of Edith Stein as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by the Roman Catholic…

Nature and Law and Gift

Edward T. Oakes

Natural Law in Judaism. by David Novak. Cambridge University Press. 210 pp $54.95.   I At first…

A Sabbath Meal

David Novak

Kaddish.By Leon Wieseltier.Knopf. 588 pp. $27.50. Probably the most important cultural phenomenon in contemporary Jewry is the…

Is the Left Good for Jews?

Edward S. Shapiro

Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties by stuart svonkin columbia university press,…

Of Bible Codes and Idols

Benjamin Wittes

Just to set the phrase “Torah Code” here evenly spaced at ten characters, I consumed a lot…

The Choosing People

Gary Rosen

The Vanishing American Jew: in Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century by Alan M. Dershowitz…

Judaism or Jewishness?

Elliot Abrams

Jewish life in America began, at least for the vast majority of Jewish families, in the decision…

What Are You Looking For?

Marc Gellman

In Genesis 37:15 we read the story of how Joseph arrived in the town of Shechem in…

That They May Be One

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square It was, if I recall, Evelyn Waugh who wrote about a Catholic gentleman whose…

Buber Without Tears

Werner J. Dannhauser

The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by nahum n. glatzer and paul mendes-flohr…

The Limits of Reconstruction

Lawrence Grossman

Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan by mel scult wayne state university…

We Are Many

Edward S. Shapiro

A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America by jack wertheimer basic books, 267 pages, $25 The slogan…