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When Elijah’s Mantle Fell: The Judaism of Leonard Cohen

Hallel from Heaven and Hallel from Hell: The Post-Holocaust Responses of Paul Celan, Aharon Appelfeld and Meshulam Rath

Batei le-Gani (“I Came to My Garden”): Two Discourses of Rabbi Schneersohn and Rabbi Hutner Compared

Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha’s Mystical Encounter with Akatriel in the Holy of Holies: A Lesson for the Generation of the Holocaust

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When Elijah’s Mantle Fell: The Judaism of Leonard Cohen

Hallel from Heaven and Hallel from Hell: The Post-Holocaust Responses of Paul Celan, Aharon Appelfeld and Meshulam Rath

Batei le-Gani (“I Came to My Garden”): Two Discourses of Rabbi Schneersohn and Rabbi Hutner Compared

Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha’s Mystical Encounter with Akatriel in the Holy of Holies: A Lesson for the Generation of the Holocaust

From deicide to calf-worship: Islam and Judaism

Four Liberating Strategies

Searching for the Lost Dimensions of Judaism

Nahmanides’ Theological Boldness

“The Jackals” and “The Lion”: Animal Fables of Kafka and Rav Kook

Rav Kook and Rav Shlomo Elyashev (“Leshem”) (1841-1926)

The Two Faces of Messianism

Reflections on Yom ha-Atsma’ut

Book Review: The Project of Hasidism by Rabbi Steven Gotlib

On the Path of the Prophets, from the Past into our Future