The British Jewish scholar Israel Abrahams (1858-1925) wrote works on Jewish history, literature, and sociology. He aided immensely in the popularization of many areas of Jewish knowledge previously accessible only to scholars. The son of a scholarly fam...
Unger's "Restatement of Judaism" sets out a possible rescue operation to revitalize the Jewish People as bearers of Judaism's world view. Unger argues that the process that led a people to lose its distinctive culture and integrated religious ethos could be reversed. Defining Western...
The Jewish Week 06-20-1997 Jewishness Or Judaism? Once again, the survival of American Jewry has become a subject of discussion in the major national media. Pitted against each other are the views of a renowned member of the bar who is a professor...
Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who spent his life forsaking convention as the leader of a sect of Judaism that saw the religion as a culture instead of a faith, has died. He was 79.Wine, who founded the first congregation of Humanistic Judaism in suburban Detroit in...
Madonna toasted the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism," local newspapers reported Sunday.The singer, who is not Jewish, arrived in Israel Wednesday on the eve of Jewish new year to attend a conference on Kabbalah or...
