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Steven over at Canonist has written a thoughtful reply to yesterday’s posting about his debate with Dan Sieradski. I had ...

Generally, it’s not fun to see your friends fight, but when the fight is over the soul of Judaism, it’s ...

As I mentioned on Friday, much of David Klinghoffer’s diagnosis of liberal pluralism (as he experienced it at Limmud NY) ...

This week’s Forward features a harsh, but disciplined critique of “liberal pluralism” by David Klinghoffer. The article consists of Klinghoffer’s ...

Walter Benjamin was one of the most idiosyncratic 20th century intellectuals. Though his formal academic training was in philosophy, he ...

Though I have mixed feelings about the Kabbalah Centre, I do feel that the mainstream Jewish community and press has, ...

This just in from JTA: Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder and leader of Jewish Renewal, ordained two rabbis, two rabbinic pastors ...

The New York Times last week had an interesting article on free will and the current scientific debate about whether ...

Ira Rifkin has an interesting article in this week’s Jewish Week about the Tiferet Institute’s recent conference on Kabbalah for ...

I only just stumbled upon Terry Eagleton’s review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion in the London Review of Books ...

This week on MyJewishLearning, Rabbi Daniel Nevins reflects on his role in the Conservative movement’s recent debate on homosexuality and ...