Holocaust

The Slaughter of Six Million Jews: A Holocaust or a Shoah?

What do the terms “holocaust” and “shoah” mean, and what do they reveal about how we view the respective roles of God and the Nazis in the Jewish genocide?

Prof.

Zev Garber

The Psalm of the Shofar: Its Use in Liturgy and its Meaning in the Bible

Prof.

Alan Cooper

The Proper Response to a Gestapo's Taunt?

Dr. Rabbi

Amit Kula

How Do We Conceive the Divine?

Prof.

Marvin A. Sweeney

The Cycle of Judahite and Edomite Violence

Dr. Rabbi

Binyamin (Benny) Lau

When the God of Justice Goes Rogue

YHWH commissions Isaiah to distract the people of Judah so that they continue to sin and then YHWH can punish them harshly. In contrast to other biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses, Isaiah is silent at this injustice.

Prof.

Marvin A. Sweeney

Using the Enemy as a Proxy

The unutterable events that happened to our infants

Rabbi

Yehudah Gilad

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