Find a Teacher for Yourself
As a rabbi and professor of rabbinic literature, I am naturally drawn to interpreting texts. The best moments…
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Turning the Unknown and the Different Into the Familiar and the Friendly
December 2, 2015. A mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, following a devastating attack in Paris, France. Anti-Muslim…
Islamic Relations with Jews and Christians
The Qur’an expresses a range of positive and negative attitudes toward Jews and Christians. The doctrine found in…
Al-Andalus
Maria Rosa Menocal (2002) argues that Al-Andalus (711–1492) was a “utopian-like” society in which Jews and Muslims lived…
Dialogue in Central Eurasia
Central Eurasia is characterized by historians as one of the most diverse places on the face of the…
A Special Blessing: The Story of WIN
There are blessings all around us, of course, but what follows is my account of an unexpected blessing–a…
Dialogue with the People of the Book and Exchange of Good Will on Holy Days
God most high has revealed in chapter Mumtahana of the Qur’an two explicit verses which could be considered…
Editorial (Issue 45)
Another year has passed, leaving much for us to take lessons from. We have seen a dictator leave…
Women and their Legal Rights in Monotheistic Religions
Introduction Eve’s fault? Eve’s legacy Shameful daughters Female education Unclean and impure women Bearing witness Vows A wife’s…
Blissful Years of The Jews in The Ottoman State
The world has been the scene of many massacres and countless acts of genocide since mankind appeared on…