A Hebrew Union College dean weighs in on Michael Chabon’s controversial commencement address.
“That’s a great play, Mr. Zangwill, that’s a great play,” shouted Theodore Roosevelt as the curtain went down on the Washington, D.C., premiere of The Melting Pot.
The Torah reading cycle provides the structure not just for the Jewish year but also for countless volumes of commentary on the biblical text.
“That’s a great play, Mr. Zangwill, that’s a great play,” shouted Theodore Roosevelt as the curtain went down on the Washington, D.C., premiere of The Melting Pot.
The Torah reading cycle provides the structure not just for the Jewish year but also for countless volumes of commentary on the biblical text.
Reviews
Maimonides, Stonehenge, and Newton’s Obsessions
It takes a bit of a genius to successfully study a genius, and in this case one must first master the millions of words the great man wrote about natural theology, doctrine, prophecy, and church history.
Reviews
You Shall Appoint for Yourself Judges
It is not much of an exaggeration to say that legal and judicial politics in Israel since his retirement have pivoted on competing views of Aharon Barak and his court: Was he a robust defender of human rights or a runaway judge who imposed his political preferences on a nation?
Readings
Du Bois, the Warsaw Ghetto, and a Priestly Blessing
When the editors at Jewish Life asked the venerable civil rights leader W. E. B. Du Bois to speak about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, they had no idea that it would lead to a priestly blessing.
The Last Word
Peter Berger listened to me patiently, and then he said, “You can come to see me, but”—and here he spoke with heavy emphasis—“it sounds like you have read my books . . . and I haven’t thought of anything new.”
From Says Who? by Abraham Socher | Summer 2018
Rabbi Nachum Rabinovitch has been working on his commentary to the Mishneh Torah for the last 41 years. It may be the greatest rabbinic work of the century.
