Understanding Judaism Through the Lens of Islam

In many respects, Islam is Judaism's closest "relative." It is a religion of law, based upon both Judaism and other inherited near eastern traditions.

Ricardo GonzalezDecember 10, 2018

Creating Israel's National and Cultural Identity: From the Ottoman Empire to the Jewish State

Throughout the subsequent decade, Ben-Yehuda and other Zionist activists in Palestine attempted to transform a small, divided, economically depressed and demographically declining Yishuv into the foundation of a modern state.

Ricardo GonzalezDecember 10, 2018

The Neuroscience and Spirituality of Consciousness

A top neuroscientist's stimulation explanation of the physical qualities of consciousness, followed by a distinguished rabbi's response on how that science might relate to descriptions of spiritual encounters with the Divine in traditional and contemporary Jewish writings.