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Jacob Neusner
From Text to Context: The Turn to History in Modern Judaism By Ismar Schorsch University Press of New England, 403 pages, $39.95 In this collection of twenty-one free-standing essays, Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a principal voice of . . . . Continue Reading »
Professor of Jewish Education and Psychology at the Hebrew College, Boston, and a practicing psychologist, Solomon Schimmel here addresses the theme of the seven deadly sins. He argues that the category of “sin” has been neglected by “secularists,” whereas the “sins of tradition, and . . . . Continue Reading »
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