I begin this reflection on Jewish bioethical response to the dilemmas within oncofertility with a familiar caveat: there is no one particular authority on Jewish ethics, nor even on the legal, or halachic norms that govern Jewish community practice. Jewish bioethics has historically been an account of optimism about research, as a project of repair in a broken or unfinished world [1]. While Fre...

This book by Eric Nelson, Professor of Government at Harvard University, is a significant contribution to the current debate on the use of Jewish sources in early modern political thought, particularly in the republican currents of the 17th century. According to Nelson, while Renaissance humanists concentrated on the pagan inheritance of Greek and Roman antiquity, “in the seventeenth century, i...

This article proceeds along three primary lines. First, through an examination of the writings Roy and Alice Eckardt Franklin Littell, it demonstrates that categorizing ancient modern Christian thinkers under umbrella “supersessionism” (along with label for its proponent, “supersessionist”) originated not in scholarly works theological history or systematic theology, where concepts now most fre...

This article describes Gandhi’s view on Judaism and Zionism places it in the framework of an interreligious theology. In such a theology, notion “trans-difference” appreciates differences between cultures religions with aim building bridges them. It is argued that understanding was limited, mainly because he looked at through Christian lenses. He reduced to religion without considering its peop...