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In the beginning is the ontology of mind. To understand the present crisis of existence of the Jewish collectivity, which I have elsewhere termed the “silent holocaust,”and its relation to the Enlightenment with its consequent Emancipation, we must being with…
Continue readingNo subject produces sharper divisions among contemporary Jews than that of the Halakhah.
Continue readingAn invisible holocaust bringing silent death is consuming American Jewry. Yet no one mourns as the victims go softly into the night.
Continue readingThe Tercentenary of the death of Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) occurs this year. For taking philosophic and theologic positions disapproved of by the Jewish community of Amsterdam, Spinoza, at the age of twenty-four, was excommunicated.
Continue readingIn no community has the subject of exile played a more significant role than among the Jews.
Continue readingThe question of Jewish survival from the viewpoint of theology, which is the subject embraced by a theology of Jewish survival, is to a considerable degree an abstract inquiry.
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