Examines the forces that led to the formation of the first international political movement among Orthodox Jews in 1912, setting its history in the context of both the millenial Jewish political tradi
Holiness is a challenge for contemporary Jewish thought. The concept of holiness is crucial to religious discourse in general and to Jewish discourse in particular. "Holiness" seems to express an impo
This book explores one of the great questions of our time: How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person while at the same time accepting what science tells us to be true--namely, that
This book explores one of the great questions of our time: How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person while at the same time accepting what science tells us to be true--namely, that
A philosophical case against religious violenceWe live in an age beset by religiously inspired violence. Terms such as “holy war” are the stock-in-trade of the evening news. But what is the relationsh
In The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah, Alan Mittleman looks at some of the central problems of political philosophy—such as fundamental rights and the common good—from the point of view of rabbin
