Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women’s Rights in Israel

In Holy Rebellion, Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks examine social change in Israel through a rigorous analysis of the shifting entanglements of…
Jewish Universalisms: Mendelssohn, Cohen, and Humanity’s Highest Good

Any version of universalism relevant to a more attentive, pluralistic, and postcolonial outlook would balance the urgent current need for a universalistic…
Defender of the Faithful: The Life and Thought of Rabbi Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv

Defender of the Faithful explores the life and thought of Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv (1740–1809), one of the most fascinating…
Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism

A classic text of enduring significance, Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem (1783) stands as a powerful plea for the separation of church and state and also…