... Jewish philosopher, read Franz Rosenzweig.” I thought, “Who? How can this guy be great if I haven’t heard of him?” It turned out Rosenzweig’s gates would soon open me to a richer, more livable Judaism...

... adherents. theoreticians, Her­ GOD “God” who/which Writers are often so eager to glorify the mann Cohen and utterly transcended post-Renaissance, early-Enlightenment Franz Rosenzweig...

... Buber or Rosenzweig, who turn to highly stylized readings of the Bible or abstract philosophical systems to provide perspective for the disagreements between Jews and Christians. Of course, there were important historical circumstances that underlay, or at least were conducive to, Heschel’s rather...

...? ly concerned about anti-Semitism. Indeed, from the territories captured in 1967—an Like Rosenzweig, he could have rejected it is convinced that anti-Semitism is the offer that would have had Israelis dancing in philosophy. But Levinas chose to redeem it. principal underlying cause...