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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Today we explore the life and ideas of the greatest Jewish philosopher of the medieval ...

About 800 years before the Pew study, Moses Maimonides received a worried letter from the leader of the Jewish community of Yemen asking him how to combat the specter of assimilation. Yemenite Jews ...

“Saint Thomas Aquinas” by G. K. Chesterton, the author of fiction and nonfiction books, including the famous Father Brown murder mysteries, wrote this comparatively short history of the Italian Roman ...

I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled “Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences between the two. “Faith” is ...

In our second article in the series Inspiring Minds, Ahram Online presents you with Maimonides, the great philosopher and physician In the heart of Islamic Cairo lies the Synagogue of Maimonides, ...

Lawrence J. Kaplan is Professor of Rabbinics and Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish Studies of McGill University, Montreal Quebec, where he has been teaching for over the past forty years.

To call someone “the greatest” in any field is to invite argument. Human achievement and its evaluation are an uncertain business and make such triumphalism suspect. Yet, there is one man who is ...

It is well known that Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993), better known as “the Rav”, did not publish many works in his lifetime. This has led his disciples to posthumously publish books in his ...

Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides, became a hugely important figure in that great era of Moorish cultural flourishing, 12th century Spain (Cordoba). Maimonides adapted the ideas of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bas-relief of Maimonides, sculpted by Brenda Putnam, hangs in the U.S. House of Representatives among statues of historical ...