Observation ·
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Knowledge of the Divine
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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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Podcast: Leon Kass on How Exodus Created the Jewish National Narrative
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Where Are We Now?
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Halkin Puts Everything in Its Place
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Completing Creation
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Moses and the Levites
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: The Place Where God Dwells
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Questions to Ask about the Tabernacle
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Israel’s Obligations to the Stranger
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: What Is the Covenant?
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: The Meaning of Amalek
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: What Is Egypt?
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Reading Exodus with Leon Kass
By Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Podcast: Leon Kass on the Formation of the People of Israel
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Leon R. KassCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
There’s No Need to Feel Sorry for God (or for Leon Kass)
By Leon R. KassI 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...
Monthly Essay ·
The People-Forming Passover
By Leon R. KassThere's a great deal more at stake in Exodus than getting the slaves out of Egypt. What might it be?
Monthly Essay ·
The Ten Commandments
By Leon R. KassWhy the Decalogue Matters
