Study of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas has grown steadily in the United States, Israel and elsewhere since his death a decade ago. Now it’s getting a boost on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Israel’s bombing and incursion into Gaza raise the question of proportionality. In addition to numerous war crimes and/or crimes against humanity, the fundamental of proportionality is being ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Hello I'm Alan Saunders and this is The Philosopher's Zone. I would single out for a ...

God's humility is such that he has placed within human faculties the power to enact justice and because God desires justice, he trusts fragile prayers to hold together the fabric of the world's hopes.

Twenty years ago, on the morning of Sunday, March 2, 2003 , while I was feeding my baby daughter, policemen entered my house and arrested me on suspicion of having murdered my father Moshe Zohar who ...

The opening in Kaunas of a cultural center named for a famous Jew coincided with rows over how to talk about his family’s killers. (JTA) — The inauguration of a cultural center named for a prominent ...

About the book: Ethics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question “what should I do?” has infused the history of human narrative for more than two centuries. One of the ...

Lithuania’s second-largest city named a park for Emmanuel Levinas, a late Jewish philosopher who was born there before moving to France. Levinas, whose writings greatly influenced Bernard-Henri Levy, ...