For a society lacking any ideology beyond preying on its neighbors, there is no hope.
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By Rabbi Yehudah Herzl Henkin
For a society lacking any ideology beyond preying on its neighbors, there is no hope.
For a society lacking any ideology beyond preying on its neighbors, there is no hope.
By Rabbi Gidon Rothstein
The role of mitzvot in a God-engaged Judaism: Denying their importance in favor of emphasizing one's spiritual relationship with God, or seeing them as the sole definer of that relationship.
The role of mitzvot in a God-engaged Judaism: Denying their importance in favor of emphasizing one's spiritual relationship with God, or seeing them as the sole definer of that relationship.
By Rabbis Moshe Rosenberg and Gidon Rothstein
How should a thinking Jew respond to Hurricane Katrina or the Asian tsunami?
How should a thinking Jew respond to Hurricane Katrina or the Asian tsunami?
By Rabbi Ozer Glickman
Views on the purpose of the rabbinate, Modern Orthodoxy and Yirat Shamayim, Maimonides' stature as a philosopher, and more.
Views on the purpose of the rabbinate, Modern Orthodoxy and Yirat Shamayim, Maimonides' stature as a philosopher, and more.
By Rabbi Ozer Glickman
Thoughts on rabbinic search committees and their methods, "functionalist" critique and the nature of the "formalist" halacha, and more.
Thoughts on rabbinic search committees and their methods, "functionalist" critique and the nature of the "formalist" halacha, and more.
By Rabbi Gidon Rothstein
Ramban is one of the earliest and most authoritative writers to be supposed to have believed in reincarnation. Maybe he didn't really, and believed something a lot more surprising.
Ramban is one of the earliest and most authoritative writers to be supposed to have believed in reincarnation. Maybe he didn't really, and believed something a lot more surprising.
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