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Boys, honor the pregnant woman. Treat her carefully and care for her, for who knows the merit of the essence already formed in the womb?
The greatest individuals on earth, pillars of society, and…
The Ḥaydakim [Bacteria] and Their Characteristics[ . . . ] There are grounds for thinking that, apart from the absence of alcoholism, there are also race factors among Jews that play a certain role…
In a phrase of Hermann Cohen, Maimonides is the “classic of rationalism” in Judaism. This phrase appears to us to be correct in a stricter sense than Cohen may have intended: Maimonides’…
The Jews are probably the only people in the world to whom it has ever been proposed that their historic destiny is—to be nice. This singular concept has played such an important role in…
[ . . . ] On a terribly cold winter night when a snowstorm was blowing, all prisoners were punished by being forced to stand at attention without overcoats—they never wore any—for hours. This was…
When macabre reality gnaws at a person’s soul, it is hard to devote oneself to psychological investigation, even of very pressing subjects. The event also seemed cut off from life, entirely academic…
When we consider the quotidian life of our society, it is impossible to ignore the phenomenon of “avoidance”; namely, it seems that the public at large is unwilling to think too much about the…
[ . . . ] That the status of the Jews in Europe has been not only that of an oppressed people but also of what Max Weber has called a “pariah people” is a fact most clearly appreciated by those who…
In describing the psychology of what he calls the “inauthentic Jew” among Gentiles, Sartre does not distinguish between the psychology of what I call the “inauthentic” Jew—the Jew who desires, so to…
In most of the current reflections on the relation between philosophy and society, it is somehow taken for granted that philosophy always possessed political or social status. According to F arabi…