Noted Israeli professor, philosopher and intellectual Moshe Halbertal spoke to a packed house of Northwestern students and faculty and Evanston residents Wednesday night as part of the Renee and ...

A torrent of books have appeared recently commenting on the narratives of 1 and 2 Samuel. This corpus of fresh, suggestive literature has reflected a drift from historical (and historical-critical) ...

Why did the disruption of Moshe Halbertal’s recent lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School garner such widespread attention? Halbertal, a noted Israeli philosopher and professor, was invited ...

A campus protest that disrupted a guest lecture by an Israeli law professor has triggered a new debate about whether the University of Minnesota is doing enough to protect free speech. Dale Carpenter, ...

Halbertal, a protégé of Carol Gilligan, asks in this book how feminists in traditional religions balance and blend their roles as mothers and believers. She first interviewed a series of Orthodox ...

In his annual Sidney Awards, New York Times columnist David Brooks recognizes the best magazine essays. As he writes, "In an age of zipless, electronic media, the idea is to celebrate (and provide ...

In October last year, the Israeli Supreme Court finally rejected the adjective “Israeli” as an official civil designation in Israel. According to the judges, the contenders did not “sufficiently prove ...

Princeton University Press, 212 pages, $29.95. A few years ago I was sitting on an airplane, and a woman next to me was reading “The Da Vinci Code.” At some point we got to talking, and I mentioned ...

Much of human history can be encapsulated in the astute observation by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr that plus can change, plus c’est la même chose – the more things change, the more they stay the same.

'From Moses to Moses, there has been none like Moses" runs the epitaph on the tomb of Moses Maimonides, comparing the medieval Jewish philosopher with his Biblical namesake—in the philosopher's favor.

Attorney and nationalist activist Itamar Ben-Gvir has initiated a lawsuit against haredi attorney and commentator Dov Halbertal, claiming recent statements by Halbertal against Ben-Gvir and an ...

The devout women in Tova Hartman Halbertal’s new book are all insiders. Unhappy insiders sometimes, uncomfortable insiders often, but inside to stay. The author understands. She begins Appropriately ...