Articles
Time to Unmask the Imposture of anti-Zionism
Read moreIn this scholarly analysis, Eva Illouz, Directrice d’Etudes at France’s École des hautes études en sciences sociales, probes the attempts of…
A Theology of the Land and the Diaspora
Read moreOctober 7, 2023, marks a turning point: The Hamas massacres recontextualize the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. Christians…
Not a Jewish Problem. Observations on the Understanding of Homosexuality in Judaism and Christianity
Read moreWhen one asks Christian theologians where the condemnation of homosexuality in the Western world originated, the answer often given is: from…
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…