Jewish History

The title of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance’s 10th anniversary conference (held this weekend in New York) was Passion and ...

For me, this week has yielded some very productive thinking about Israel and Zionism. In addition to the blogging and ...

As I mentioned yesterday, Alvin Rosenfeld begins his essay “Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism” with several harrowing pages ...

I know I’m a week late, but I finally got around to reading Alvin Rosenfeld’s AJC article “Progressive Jewish Thought ...

I just received Farrar, Straus, & Giroux’s preview of its Fall 2007 books, and Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer’s The ...

By now, many of you will have read or read about Alvin Rosenfeld’s article “Progressive Jewish Thought and the New ...

Last week on MJL, Brigitte Sion offered her analysis of four national Holocaust memorials, and in so doing, noted that ...

On Thursday night, Ultra-Orthodox activists in Jerusalem burned barrels of “immodest” clothing, claiming that female immodesty is the only thing ...

Apparently the new edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica takes a skeptical position on this question. Find out more here.

As I mentioned on Friday, much of David Klinghoffer’s diagnosis of liberal pluralism (as he experienced it at Limmud NY) ...