In The Guardian, Aidan O'Neill discusses the role of religion in the American and British Supreme Courts.
Religion and the judiciary
Judaism
CFP: “Social Policy & Religion in the Middle East”
The 12th Mediterranean Research Meeting of the European University Institute---to be held in Florence, Italy, from April 6-9, 2011---will include…
Colloquium: secularism and its discontents
Event: Secularism and Its Discontents: The View from Jewish Studies. Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of…
The experiment that did not fail?
On the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Degania kibbutz, J. J. Goldberg writes about the decline of the…
Commentary: Obama distorts meaning of Passover
Jennifer Rubin accuses Barack Obama of diluting and distorting the message of Passover.
On the seventh day you shall unplug
The New York Times reports that a "nonprofit think tank of hip, media-savvy Jewish professionals, based in New York" is…
Orthodox by Design
Jeremy Stolow's Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics and the ArtScroll Revolution will be published next month by University of…
Christopher Hitchens shows God how it’s done
In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens takes a stab at re-founding western culture.
Judith Butler on Judaism, Israel, and anti-occupation politics
In Haaretz, Judith Butler gives a long and personal interview to American-Israeli filmmaker Udi Aloni.
Jewish economic ambivalence
From Princeton University Press, historian Jerry Z. Muller has a new book on Capitalism and the Jews.