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Leon R. Kass


Leon R. Kass is dean of the faculty at Shalem College, professor emeritus in the College and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and scholar emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. A physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual, he served from 2001-2005 as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics.

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  1. Observation ·

    Podcast: Leon Kass on How Exodus Created the Jewish National Narrative

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Podcast: Leon Kass on How Exodus Created the Jewish National Narrative
  2. Observation ·

    Where Are We Now?

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Where Are We Now?
  3. Observation ·

    Halkin Puts Everything in Its Place

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Halkin Puts Everything in Its Place
  4. Observation ·

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Completing Creation

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Completing Creation
  5. Observation ·

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Moses and the Levites

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Moses and the Levites
  6. Observation ·

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: The Place Where God Dwells

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: The Place Where God Dwells
  7. Observation ·

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Questions to Ask about the Tabernacle

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Questions to Ask about the Tabernacle
  8. Observation ·

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Israel’s Obligations to the Stranger

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Israel’s Obligations to the Stranger
  9. Observation ·

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: What Is the Covenant?

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: What Is the Covenant?
  10. Observation ·

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: The Meaning of Amalek

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: The Meaning of Amalek
  11. Observation ·

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Knowledge of the Divine

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Knowledge of the Divine
  12. Observation ·

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: What Is Egypt?

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: What Is Egypt?
  13. Observation ·

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass

    By Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Reading Exodus with Leon Kass
  14. Observation ·

    Podcast: Leon Kass on the Formation of the People of Israel

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Leon R. Kass

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Podcast: Leon Kass on the Formation of the People of Israel
  15. Response ·

    There’s No Need to Feel Sorry for God (or for Leon Kass)

    By Leon R. Kass

    I am very grateful to Hillel Halkin, Jon Levenson, and Ronna Burger for taking time and trouble, especially in these terrible days, to comment on my essay “ The People-Forming Passover ,” excerpted (w...

    There’s No Need to Feel Sorry for God (or for Leon Kass)
  16. Monthly Essay ·

    The People-Forming Passover

    By Leon R. Kass

    There's a great deal more at stake in Exodus than getting the slaves out of Egypt. What might it be?

    The People-Forming Passover
  17. Monthly Essay ·

    The Ten Commandments

    By Leon R. Kass

    Why the Decalogue Matters

    The Ten Commandments