Spinoza
New AI tool allows users to chat with Jewish historical figures
Jewish Lives says the site is designed to “enrich reader exploration of the Jewish experience.” They’ve created lesson plans to help educators use Ask Jewish Lives in the classroom.
This month in Jewish history: Operation Moses, Hanukkah, and Spinoza
'Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah': Paving the way for secular Jewish identity - review
Why the new Spinoza documentary is especially relevant today
Spinoza's father was a loyal son of Israel, unlike his son - opinion
Little known is the life of Michael Spinoza, Baruch Spinoza’s father, but he was a loyal son of Israel and follower of the Amsterdam rabbinate.
Jewish Spinoza expert named ‘persona non grata’ in Amsterdam’s synagogue
Spinoza was the famed Jewish philosopher who laid the intellectual foundations of the Enlightenment. He was excommunicated by Amsterdam’s Jews in 1656 for heresy.
In search of the original Spinoza
For many, Spinoza is iconic, a “secular saint,” combining his herculean efforts to understand the world by methodical reasoning with the humble life.
The rite of circumcision
'The remarkable capacity of the Jewish nation to outlive all its enemies may quite well be the result of this small physical intervention.'
The persistent survival of Jewish hopes
Simon Schama reveals some basic truths of Jewish history.
What would Spinoza say?
Philosophy and comics team up to tell the story of one 17th-century thinker who, though despised in his own time, may be an antidote for today's ills.
