Articles By Jeffrey Spitzer

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Jeffrey Spitzer is Chair of the Department of Talmud and Rabbinics at Gann Academy, The New Jewish High School, Waltham, Mass., and a member of the Institute's Tichon Fellows Program.

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  Rejecting the Vegetarian Label

  I don't eat meat, but I'm no vegetarian.

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  An Aramean Destroyed My Father

  Commentaries on the Haggadah contrast the evil of Laban with Pharaoh and see Laban as a symbol for political, sociological, and psychological evil.

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  To What is God Similar?

  Rabbinic parables explicitly compare God to a variety of human analogues, reflecting the rabbis' subtle, complex, and diverse images of God.




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