The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender: A Forum
The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender: A Forum An Introduction Nina Caputo (University of Florida) Contributors Who Speaks for the Jews? Latin
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Terrence McNally: Life and Love Onstage
John M. Clum on Raymond-Jean Frontain’s The Theater of Terrence McNally Playwright Terrence McNally, who died on March 24, was one of the
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The Inevitable Lies of Unorthodox
Shaul Magid on Netflix’s Unorthodox A Rosh Yeshiva (Yeshiva Dean) in Jerusalem once said to me, “One of the biggest problems with the yeshiva
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Grieving The Gods: Spirituality At The End of An Age
Keith Hackwood on Peter Kingsley Catafalque. A word to conjure with. Velvety on the tongue but dark and inclined downward somehow; formed in
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Are Evangelicals Their Own Worst Enemy?
Audrey Farley on Thomas Kidd As the coronavirus pandemic intensifies across the world, so does blame for the failed efforts to contain the
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The Pursuit of Kierkegaardian Virtue
Thomas J. Millay on Sylvia Walsh In November of 2013, Sylvia Walsh delivered a lecture on Kierkegaard and virtue at Baylor University that
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James Wood and The Visionless Age
Samuel Liu on James Wood’s Serious Noticing Perhaps there is no essay by James Wood more thrilling than his piece on metaphor in
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The Ethnocentrism of Science: Race, Biology, and Bigoted Fictions
Matthew Mutter on Charles King Near the end of Gods of the Upper Air, Charles King plucks a 1958 letter from Margaret Mead’s
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Hasidism Forum: A New History
Hasidism: A Forum This forum is dedicated to our friend and colleague Professor Tzippi Kauffman who left this world much too early. She
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Blood Libel: Why is Facebook Permitting Antisemitism?
Paul Franks on Facebook’s Refusal to Remove Hate Speech On 24th March 2020, the Italian artist Giovanni Gasparro posted pictures on Facebook of
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