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** PRESENTS
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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Icon Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
** H. W. Longfellow
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How do Orthodox Jews police the boundaries of, well, orthodoxy? From the archive, three authors reflect on a shunned rabbi who harmed the Orthodox cause, a polemic against Lubavitcher messianists, and a learned account of Baruch Spinoza.
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FROM THE OCTOBER 2021 ISSUE
** A Naive Heretic ([link removed])
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** J. J. KIMCHE
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The foundational creed of Orthodox Judaism today is the belief that the five books of Moses were dictated, fully and flawlessly, by God himself.
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FROM THE MAY 2003 ISSUE
** The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Heresy Hunter ([link removed])
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** DAVID SINGER
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It is the occupational hazard of the heresy hunter to come to believe that he faces an all-powerful enemy who exerts vast influence.
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FROM THE FEBRUARY 2017 ISSUE
** Absolute Reason ([link removed])
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** SHALOM CARMY
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Many Jews and quite a few non-Jews share a fascination with Spinoza that is out of all proportion to their interest in his actual ideas.
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