Souls in the World of Chaos features a translation, introduction and notes by Bezalel Naor of one of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook’s lesser-known essays, included in the 1950 edition of Orot. The essay first appeared in 1913 and described the Second Aliyah in spiritual terms. The cohort emigrating then to Palestine were mostly secular, Socialist Russian […]
In The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics, Jeremy Brown presents a pathbreaking study of how Jews have reacted to, been blamed for, and religiously framed pandemics. Brown, a historian of science and medicine who directs the Office of Emergency Care Research at the NIH, offers a comprehensively researched and engagingly written investigation. Along the way, readers […]
On Monday, May 8, 2023, a special screening of Israel Swings for Gold was shown at Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus. The screening was sponsored by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs, the Office of Student Life and the Philos Project and was attended by an audience […]