Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal.

What does a 12th-century rabbi in Egypt, arguably the greatest thinker in Jewish history, have in common with a 17th-century Jewish philosopher in Amsterdam who was “expelled from the people of Israel ...

because Spinoza’s Latin spirit fermented in an Ibn Tibbon Hebrew rebrew, a Marrano malt that neither is a single nor a double, but a triple, ale from three spirits which Spinoza’s mighty mind would ...

Students, scholars, and members of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies filled Kane Hall 225 Oct. 29 to celebrate the book ...

Spinoza probably lives in the memory of those who took an introduction to philosophy course as one of those strangely ambitious, God’s-eye-view metaphysicians who thought they could explain everything ...

(JTA) — More than 350 years after this city’s Portuguese Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza and banned his writings for eternity, the philosopher’s books are for sale at the souvenir shop ...

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Here are the opening lines of the herem, the philosopher Spinoza’s excommunication from the Amsterdam synagogue. With the judgment of the angels and with that of the saints, we put under herem, ...

We often think of cancel culture as a contemporary phenomenon, driven by social media and rife in our hyper-connected world. But really, punishing people for their ideas and opinions has been going on ...

The Irish actor turns his performance in 'The Banshees of Inisherin,' the film by Edward Berger that has just landed on ...