What is Jewish in Jewish philosophy?

Jewish Teenagers’ Syncretism

Homophony in Multilingual Jewish Cultures

One of the distinctive features of multilingual Jewish cultures is the interpretation of a sacred Hebrew signifier by its phonic identity or proximity to a signifier in another language. This essay demonstrates the cultural creativity that might inhere in such “mistakes,” providing examples from three different periods—rabbinic, Hebrew-Yiddish European culture, and modern Israeli Hebrew. I n th...

Haptoglobin frequencies in Jewish communities.

The variation of the haptogIobins of human plasma was shown by Smithies (1955) and Smithies & Walker (1956, 1956) to be a Mendelian trait controlled by two alleles. These two alleles, Hpl and Hp2, co-exist generally in human populations, and their relative proportions exhibit geographic variation. Additional haptoglobin variants have been detected, but their genetic relationships to the first t...

Assisted reproduction in Jewish law.

This Article attempts to untangle Jewish law regarding assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), namely artificial insemination with husband’s sperm, artificial insemination with donor sperm, and in vitro fertilization. The author examines teachings by prominent Jewish law scholars and clarifies basic schools of thought regarding each method. He explores Jewish law prohibitions on incest and a...

Azazel in Early Jewish Tradition

The term" Azazel," which appears four times in the prescriptions for the Day of Atonement (Lev 16:8, 10, 26), has elicited much debate. Although many scholars have identified Azazel with a demonic figure to whom the sin-laden scapegoat was dispatched, the term remains undefined in the biblical text. This article will attempt to demonstrate that two noncanonical Jewish works, 1 Enoch and the Apo...