This article highlights the important initial tasks of excavating the pertinent contexts of the sixteenth-century Protestant reformers and discerning what is at stake for them (i.e., “unearthing logic”) in order to analyze their views of and teachings about Jews and Judaism. Pertinent contexts include the immediate contexts to which Luther and Calvin responded (e.g., Jewish “blasphemy” and/or C...

Modern secular bioethics has focused on developing a set of universal principles to guide clinical decision making. However, this ignores the important role of religion in resolving bioethical questions. It is imperative that health-care providers understand these belief systems in order to traverse value conflicts and provide the highest quality care to a diverse population. This paper focuses...

This review gives a broad overview of the recent volumes of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein’s thought. Topics covered in the review include his approach to Judaism, an analysis of his intellectual influences, his views of modernity, and his place in contemporary Orthodoxy. The review points out the seminal role of these essays for the formation of Centrist Orthodox thought over the last thirty years. B...