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Rufina and Her Sisters

Jewish women in the Diaspora.

The Shiur Komah: Imaging the Divine

A text's physical description of God might actually have been intended to emphasize God's indescribability.

Spinoza and the Philosophical Impossibility of a Chosen People

Jewish chosenness is not a metaphysical reality. It derives from the conditions of a particularly prosperous period in Israelite history.

2500 BCE to 539 BCE: The Story

Jewish History from the beginning through the Babylonian exile.

Let’s Talk About Sects

The Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes on law.

Jewish Sects

In the Second Temple period.

Israel and Judaism

The importance of Israel for Jews who do not live there.

Jews & Globalization

Jews (not surprisingly) fall on different sides of the issue, but Jews and Israel have also been the target of anti-globalization anger.

The Rabbis and the Common Folk

The evolving relationship between the rabbinic sages and the Jews on the street.

Jewish-Christian Theology and Relations After the Holocaust

In the wake of the Holocaust, Jewish theologians have challenged Christian thinkers to rework Christianity's traditional pictures of the Jews.

Jewish Views on Islam

According to most Jewish thinkers, Islam is not idolatry; but authorities have disagreed as to whether it's better to convert or be martyred.

Modern Orthodoxy & the Chosen People

The requirements and transcendent possibilities of Jewish law are the bases of Jewish distinctness.

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