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Controversy Stories and Jewish-Christian Relations
Read moreIt is usually easier for people in “naturally” or “biologically” determined groups – members of an ethnic group, members of a family – to…
The Guide and its Guide: A review essay
Read moreThe Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation
By Lenn E. Goodman and Phillip I. Lieberman
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024)
Lenn E.…“One Ought to Pray, Day and Night, for the Thousands”: Etty Hillesum’s Approach to Prayer and Hasidic Thought
Read moreEtty (Esther) Hillesum’s (1914–1943)* diaries, published in the Netherlands for the first time in 1981, have since been translated into 18…
How Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Read moreThe choice of January 27 as the day of commemoration is the result of relatively recent initiatives by non-Jews. Without abandoning this now…
Unfulfilled Promise. Pope Francis and the Israel-Hamas war
Read morePope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s operation in Gaza constitutes genocide, according to a new book…
How the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large
Read moreIt has long been well-known that interest in Israel and its conflict with Palestinians and with Arabs and Muslims in the region is extremely…
Onkelos and the Tree(s)
Read moreIn his Guide of the Perplexed I:27, Rambam (Moses Maimonides, 1138-1204) wrote:
Onkelos the Proselyte was highly adept in Syriac and…
JEWS AND CHRISTIANS. From Past to Future
Read moreIt is with great pleasure that JCR announces that the book "Jews and Christians. From Past to Future" by the well known Catholic monk and…
Seeking Abraham’s God after October 7th: From Radical Antisemitism to Relational Dialogue
Read moreAbraham, the common spiritual ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, was called by God to be a blessing, not to conquer or convert (Gen.…
The Judensau: Remembering a Grotesque Anti-Jewish Image
Read moreJudensau translates as, Jewish sow. Its German medieval origins are complex; its history long (extending well into the twentieth century,…