It is hard to do a philosopher’s life. For starters, sources tend to be rather meager: Philosophers generally tend not to live an active, engaged public existence (Socrates, Sartre, and Russell ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

The medieval philosopher-physician has left a ‘practical legacy’ on modern medical practice. Doctors around the world hold in high regard the writings and manner of care of medieval ...

“Rambam Year,” which marks the 750th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, the medieval Jewish philosopher and scientist also known as Maimonides, will be opened here tomorrow at the ...

The prolific Torah luminary whose Mishne Torah, Sefer Hamitzvot, Guide to the Perplexed, Letter to Yemen's Jews, and more ...

Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, Maimonides, also known by the acronym Rambam, lived over eight hundred years ago (1138-1204 CE). He never saw the planet Earth as Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders did on ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: All sages in Eretz Yisrael can collectively reinstate ...

Lawrence J. Kaplan is Professor of Rabbinics and Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish Studies of McGill University, Montreal Quebec, where he has been teaching for over the past forty years.

Professor Daniel Rynhold may teach modern Jewish philosophy, but his recently published book is titled, An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy. At the behest of the book’s publisher, Palgrave ...

“From Moses to Moses there has been no man like Moses,” said Israel’s President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, and the audience assembled in Jerusalem’s Rav Kook Institute one day last week recognized the old Jewish ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.