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Moses Mendelssohn as an Influence on Hermann Cohen’s “Idiosyncratic” Reading of Maimonides’ Ethics

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Surprisingly, there are at least three major theological subjects where Hermann Cohen seems to agree with Mendelssohn—against standard Jewish Reform theology. Even more interesting: All three points stand in connection with the religious thought of Moses
George Y. Kohler
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Oneness and Mending the World in Arthur Green’s Neo-Hasidism

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article describes and discusses Green’s mystical neo-Hasidic thought, his reshaping of Judaism and his combination of scholarship and existential engagement.
Ephraim Meir
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A Virtual Dialogue between Gandhi and Levinas

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Mahatma Gandhi and Emmanuel Levinas have much in common. They interpret religion in a radical ethical way and develop an ethical hermeneutics of religious sources. Levinas’s thoughts on a holy history, not to be confused with history, are comparable with
Ephraim Meir
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The Participation of God and the Torah in Early Kabbalah

open access: yesReligions, 2021
All Abrahamic religions have developed hypostatic and semi-divine perceptions of scripture. This article presents an integrated picture of a rich tradition developed in early kabbalah (twelfth–thirteenth century) that viewed the Torah as participating ...
Adam Afterman, Ayal Hayut-man
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Gandhi’s View on Judaism and Zionism in Light of an Interreligious Theology

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This article describes Gandhi’s view on Judaism and Zionism and places it in the framework of an interreligious theology. In such a theology, the notion of “trans-difference” appreciates the differences between cultures and religions with the aim of ...
Ephraim Meir
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The Logic of Dialogue and Dialogical Theology

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In this article, I introduce and develop a logic of dialogue and reciprocity as distinguished from a logic of reflection. I argue that interreligious dialogue is not only desirable, but logically necessary for two reasons: one, the logic of dialogue ...
Ephraim Meir
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Alterity, Alacrity, and Excess: Continental Philosophical Interpretations of the Figure of Abraham According to Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion

open access: yesReligions, 2022
I propose a new reading of a selection of continental philosophical interpretations of the nature of existentialism after the dialogical turn. This analysis will focus on the particular case study of the biblical character of Abraham as a case in point ...
Miriam Feldmann Kaye
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Early Religious Zionism and Erudition Concerning the Temple and Sacrifices

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalisher’s messianic innovations asserted the centrality of a renewal of offerings on the altar to the creation of a linear path to redemption. Despite the common convention, his ideas were not disregarded by his peers and followers.
Isaac Hershkowitz
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Berlin’s Savoyard Vicar: Religious Skepticism and Toleration in Mendelssohn and Rousseau

open access: yesReligions, 2023
While both Mendelssohn and Rousseau were deeply spiritual thinkers whose writings continually reflect a profound belief in a benevolent God, they both still used religious skepticism in order to undermine the logic of religious intolerance.
Jeremy Fogel
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L’amicizia di una vita. Eugenio Garin (1909-2004) e Jacob Leib Teicher (1904-1981)

open access: yesNoctua, 2019
The philosopher and historian of Italian philosophy, Eugenio Garin, and Jacob Leib Teicher, the Polish Jewish student of Arabic and Jewish philosophy, met as students at the University of Florence, Italy, in the 1920s.
Anna Teicher
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