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Freedman on ‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism

Freedman on ‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism

March 1, 2007 | Shalom Freedman
Rosenfeld Is Right ‘Progressive' Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism, by Alvin H. Rosenfeld, American Jewish Committee, 2007, 29 pp. Reviewed by Shalom Freedman
Kenneth Hart Green’s Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss by Laurence Berns

Kenneth Hart Green’s Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss by Laurence Berns

October 20, 1997
In his book on Leo Strauss, Jew and Philosopher..., Kenneth Hart Green has provided the first serious study of the development ofStrauss's thought. Strauss's fundamental thought that revealed theology and philosophy are mutually irrefutable takes the form in Maimonides of a cosmological opposition between creation and eternity. Philosophy's incapacity to refute its revealed counterpart requires recognition of that counterpart as a possibility. Green's Strauss's Maimonides' prophetology articulates human perfection as a reconciliation of reason and revelation, a reconciliation of prophet and philosopher-king.
Kenneth Hart Green’s Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss

Kenneth Hart Green’s Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss

October 20, 1997
Are philosophy and biblical faith compatible? Early, Strauss wrote that in every attempt to harmonize them, one of the two is sacrificed to the other. Later, he seemed to think that the two can co-exist peacefully, each learning from the other. I argue that there is no place for revelation in the life of reason. Because Maimonides was primarily a philosopher, he argued that there were rational grounds for all the commandments. Philosphy thus enslaves revelation instead of co-existing peacefully with it.
Kenneth Hart Green’s Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss

Kenneth Hart Green’s Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss

October 20, 1997
This is Only the Fact, But We Have the Idea: Solomon Schechter’s Path to Zionism

This is Only the Fact, But We Have the Idea: Solomon Schechter’s Path to Zionism

April 20, 1997 | David B. Starr
On the Unity of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Paul Bagley

On the Unity of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Paul Bagley

April 25, 1995
Communal Democracy and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish Political Tradition

Communal Democracy and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish Political Tradition

April 27, 1993
Interpretation of Genesis

Interpretation of Genesis

April 4, 1989