AMSTERDAM (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 ...

(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 ...

An international appeal to honor the memory of Baruch Spinoza, on the occasion of the approaching two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his death, February 21, 1927, was issued by the American ...

Baruch Spinoza’s life was a product of paradox. The 17th century, in Europe, was a time of both barbarous sectarianism and unprecedented human achievement. It was an era of new ideas — ideas that ...

FORT WORTH — New Jerusalem is a strong enough play that it can survive a wrongheaded interpretation of the central role. David Ives' subtitle for his script, based on historical events, gives a fair ...

An Emperor of Nothing This morning in Slate I encountered a rather peculiar piece, The Original Jewish Genius: How the Gaon of Vilna helps explain Jewish intellectual achievement. The reason I found ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. In April 1655 ...

Spinoza’s parents fled from Catholic persecution in Portugal and settled in Holland, where he was born in 1632. He was given an Orthodox Jewish education but his ideas alienated the Rabbinate and he ...

Is there room for a novel about Baruch Spinoza in a publishing market crowded with supernatural creatures and kinky romance? Irvin D. Yalom thinks so. In fact, there’s plenty of room to describe the ...