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When a Medieval Jewish Philosopher Wrote a Treatise for a Muslim Governor
Ibn Kammuna’s Abrahamic philosophical piety.
Alan Brill
Alan Brill holds the chair for Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University and is the author of, among other books, Judaism and World Religions (2012) and Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter (2019).
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Where American Jews Stand in the Great Tangle of Yoga
By Alan Brill“Should Religious Jews Practice Yoga?” So asks Menachem Wecker in the title of his deliberately provocative essay in Mosaic. His answer is that they definitely should not—because, however diluted...
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Teaching Judaism in Indonesia
Jews first came to the country with the merchants who brought Islam.
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Everything a Jew Ever Wanted to Know about Hinduism but Was Afraid to Ask
Some surprising similarities between Judaism and Hinduism.
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The Imperfect God of Midrash
How arguing with God became acceptable.
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The Perils of Polls about Religion
A grain of salt.
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A 19th-Century Mystical Theology of Judaism
Translating Ḥayyim of Volozhin’s kabbalistic treatise.
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As Modern Orthodoxy Turns Inward, Ultra-Orthodoxy Reaches Out
That’s the argument of a new book.
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Ḥasidic Tales through a Labor-Zionist Lens
"Alcohol, stolen geese, and wives pleading with their husbands to come back home."
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A New Haggadah Rolls out a Program for Open Orthodoxy
"All who are hungry for this moxie, let them come and eat."
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What Is Buddhist Meditation Doing at an Ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva?
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Making Sense of the Talmud’s Many Layers
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God in America
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