The Trials and Tribulations of A New Jewish Canon
Claire E. Sufrin and Yehuda Kurtzer on our relation to the past For five years, we have been working on a book project
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Racial Murder: American Memory, American Tragedy
In light of recent events, we are republishing this piece written after the Charleston shooting on June 17, 2015. Samuel Loncar on America,
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Toward A Better Eternity: COVID-19 and The Recovery of Time
Ahmed Elbenni on COVID-19 Lately, I’ve taken to counting in Fridays. It’s been ten Fridays since the coronavirus made my body home and
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Demons and Western Psychology: The Unbounded Potential of The Monastic Mind
Daniel Eastman on Inbar Graiver How were Christian monks in the late antique Near East like modern cognitive psychologists? This question lies at
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On Myths and Moneylenders
Rowan Dorin on The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender In the century following the Black Death, new Jewish communities sprang up in
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Jewish Moneylending? Questioning Paradigms, Shattering Myths
Julie Mell responds to the forum on The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender Eppur si muove – “And yet it moves . .
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The Art of Poetry: To Turn Our Grief to Music
Andrew Mossin on Rachel Tzvia Back “Poetry makes nothing happen.” W.H. Auden’s oft-quoted line appears in his 1940 poem, “In Memory of W.B.
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Establishing Truth That’s Trusted in the Gospels and Today
Ramsay MacMullen A front-page feature of the NY Times Science section recently (March 3, 2020) explained how social animals, from primates down through
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Who Speaks for the Jews: Latin and Hebrew Sources
Pinchas Roth on The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender In The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender, Julie Mell aims to uproot several long-held
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Complicating Myths: Moneylending in Iberia
Sarah Ifft Decker on The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender Jews began to settle in Vic, a mid-size city in northwestern Catalonia, only
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