Today’s ReligionDispatches carries an article by Professor Aryeh Cohen of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of American Jewish University. Cohen does a great job of showing that there is, indeed, a sea change in the Jewish world in the relationship between traditional text study and progressive politics. My experience in American Jewish communities, dating [...]
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Progressive Jews Studying Traditional Texts: But Why?
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