Philosophy
The West funds its own executioners in ideological war it barely realizes it is fighting - opinion
Institutional capture, ideological conformity, and foreign-backed authoritarian movements are challenging the individual freedoms that once formed the core of Western civilization.
Serendipitous gifts are all around us: The invisible threads connecting Israelis in times of loss
In a season of joy, rethinking happiness: Lessons from the tightrope
Wedding invitation from 1955: A stroll through cherished memories - opinion
Remembering Rabbi Dr. Isidore Epstein, Jewish philosopher and thinker
He wrote voluminously. When he retired and we wanted to honor him by means of a bibliography of his writings, he couldn’t remember all that he had written.
Hebraicizing Oedipus
I have become convinced that Freud hijacked the story of Oedipus for his own purposes.
Time to examine the relationship between kabbalah and modern science
The existing literature on science and religion often talks about them contradicting each other, or the necessity to reconcile them. I consider this approach wrong.
'Heaven and Hell': New history of the afterlife shows origins of the idea
Our view of the afterlife isn't from Jews, Christians, but from Homer, Plato, Virgil.
Making sense of Passover (from a non-Jewish point of view)
The Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz described Jewish practices in ways that made sense to me.
The Corona crisis: Where man and God meet
We are already hearing crazy theories that Corona was a Jewish invention, a sinister scenario set up so that Jews would rake in billions when they “just happened” to come out with a vaccination.
Judaism unites East and West
Nagen unpacks the West’s ‘doing,’ East’s ‘being’ approaches
Wassilevsky’s hassidic super-souls
When Wassilevsky described hassidism’s approach to Zion, it seems that contemporary issues were close to his mind; it is not always clear when he is channeling hassidism or speaking in his own voice.
French Philosopher: ‘Left-wing Islamism and antisemitism have a future’
One of France’s most important philosophers and a widely recognized public intellectual, Alain Finkielkraut, sounded strong alarm bells over the rise of left-wing Islamism and radical antisemitism.
Can scientific theories of the world's creation be in the Image of God?
The biblical account of a purposeful creation and the transcendent idea that every person is created in the Image of God are not scientific descriptions, but moral stimuli.
