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Professor Ori Soltes for The Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts: “Shaping God in Modernity: From Descartes to Spinoza”
Both Descartes and Spinoza are credited with pushing medieval thought toward modernity, but their respective foci on questions pertaining to God are very different from each;…
February 12, 2026
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Professor Ori Soltes for The Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts: “The Linguistics and Theology of Defining, Understanding, Misunderstanding, Liking and Disliking Jews and Judaism”
The words “Jew,” “Jewish,” and “Judaism” have offered a treble-definitional problem in the sweep through history and in particularly Christian-Jewish relations during…
February 12, 2026
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Professors Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware for the School of Foreign Service: “Five questions about domestic terrorism and the violence in Minneapolis”
In January 2026, two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were shot by U.S. federal agents in Minneapolis as part of local protests against U.S. Customs and Border…
February 12, 2026
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Diana Dumitru for Cambridge University Press: “Soviet Jews under Late Stalinism: A Story from the Western Borderlands”
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February 12, 2026
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81 Years That Challenge Us
The Holocaust was the result of disgraceful racial prejudices that dehumanizedtargeted groups. In societies in which moral and spiritual values had collapsed, civil andreligious…
February 12, 2026
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Professor David Ebenbach for New World Writing Quarterly: “Three Poems”
The AI Wishes It Was a Plough or a screwdriver, a toothbrush, a spatula—anything without electricity or moving parts. Even a stapler would be too much. Even a pair of…
January 26, 2026
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Professor Ori Soltes for PBS: “A Sacred Piece of Home”
Americans are from everywhere and they have brought their faiths and their building traditions to their new home. In four episodes, A SACRED PIECE OF HOME: WASHINGTON, D.C.…
January 16, 2026
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Professor Ori Soltes publishes “From Plato to Panini to Levinas: The Problem of Language for Philosophy and Theology”
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January 16, 2026
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Professor Jacques Berlinerblau and Professor Jessica Roda for The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Scholarly Associations Are Becoming Identity Battlegrounds”
In a recent piece for The Times of Israel, Adam Ferziger, a Bar-Ilan University professor, recounts what he views as something of a Hanukkah miracle. The incident occurred at the…
January 6, 2026
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Professor Jessica Roda for Sociétés & Représentations: “Tensions in Intangible Cultural Heritage”
In the postcolonial context of the 1970s, the anthropologization of culture had the effect of broadening the notion of heritage to a new field: intangible cultural heritage.…
December 22, 2025