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 ...

Praise for the tenets of Baruch Spinoza, the tercentenary of whose birth occurred on Thursday, is expressed in a message sent by Professor Albert Einstein to the Spinoza Institute of America. 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 ...

What is Spinoza’s Philosophy? Ian Buruma’s 2024 “Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah,” a significant addition to Jewish studies, is published by Yale University Press. This book is a comprehensive introduction ...

Rejected by his Jewish community in Amsterdam, Baruch Spinoza was living alone in a small village outside The Hague in Holland and earning his living by grinding lenses when he wrote one of the most ...

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 of the ...

Stephen G. Anthony, Abdiel Vivancos, Gregg Weiner and Larry Bramble discuss God and philosophy in GableStage’s ‘New Jerusalem.’ George Schiavone David Ives’ New Jerusalem is set in 1656, and it’s ...

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 ...

A surprising hit of the new theater season is a play about Baruch Spinoza, a philosopher of the Enlightenment era. The Lantern Theater Company in Center City was selling out performances before the ...