Yehuda Halper, at The Blogs

Sep 18, 2023, 10:40 PM

Orthodox Judaism and the Attack on Regulation

In today's Orthodox Judaism, all regulation is self-regulation, and all review is self-review. Israel's New Right, now in power for nine months, has revealed itself to have two clear agendas: one is to support orthodox Judaism, in its varied political...

Jul 27, 2023, 9:34 AM

The 21st Century Sadducees

What would be a finer or more just form of government than that which makes God the leader of all and that which entrusts the religious authorities, as a group, with managing the greatest affairs? … For the religious...

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Yehuda Halper is associate professor in the department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. He directs the Israel Science Foundation, Research Grant: "Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Explanation of Foreign Terms and the Foundations of Philosophy in Hebrew." His 2021 book, Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato won the Goldstein-Goren book award for best book in Jewish Thought 2019-2021.

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