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 ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: Non-Davidic kings are exempt from testifying and immune ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: A judge can withdraw before knowing the case outcome, but not after—unless death is inevitable, not just possible.

The Rambam’s yahrzeit falls on the 20th of Tevet, January 9th this year. Why his yahrzeit is not known to many people is a famous question, with a just as famous answer: The Rambam's yahrzeit is ...

It is well known that Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993), better known as “the Rav”, did not publish many works in his lifetime. This has led his disciples to posthumously publish books in his ...

An 800-year-old nutrition plan could become Israel’s next fad diet. Gil Yosef Shachar, a Jerusalem-based physician, is traveling around Israel spreading the wisdom of Maimonides, or the Rambam, the ...