Philosophy

The existing literature on science and religion often talks about them contradicting each other, or the necessity to reconcile them. I consider this approach wrong.

Our view of the afterlife isn't from Jews, Christians, but from Homer, Plato, Virgil.

The Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz described Jewish practices in ways that made sense to me.

We are already hearing crazy theories that Corona was a Jewish invention, a sinister scenario set up so that Jews would rake in billions when they “just happened” to come out with a vaccination.

Nagen unpacks the West’s ‘doing,’ East’s ‘being’ approaches

When Wassilevsky described hassidism’s approach to Zion, it seems that contemporary issues were close to his mind; it is not always clear when he is channeling hassidism or speaking in his own voice.

One of France’s most important philosophers and a widely recognized public intellectual, Alain Finkielkraut, sounded strong alarm bells over the rise of left-wing Islamism and radical antisemitism.

The biblical account of a purposeful creation and the transcendent idea that every person is created in the Image of God are not scientific descriptions, but moral stimuli.

Balint’s book “Kafka’s Last Trial” is a meticulously researched narrative telling of the tortuous journey of Kafka’s manuscripts from Czechoslovakia to the vaults of the National Library of Israel.

Last year the university awarded 311 Ph.D.'s, and in 2012 they awarded 366 doctorates.