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JERUSALEM -- Rabbi Emil Fackenheim, 87, a leading Jewish philosopher who explored the essence of Judaism in the aftermath of the Holocaust, died Sept. 19 in Jerusalem. A cause of death was not given.
Emil Fackenheim, a prominent philosopher and theologian, died at age 87. He is perhaps most famous for his assertion that after the Holocaust, Jews have not only 613 commandments to obey ...
Rabbi Emil Fackenheim, 87, a leading Jewish philosopher who explored the essence of Judaism in the aftermath of the Holocaust, died Friday in Jerusalem of natural causes. Born in Halle ...
Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. Emil Fackenheim, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, was working to confront the scandal of the ...
Stephen Crittenden: The leading Jewish theologian-philosopher Emile Fackenheim died this year, and his passing was pretty much missed by the Australian media. To discuss the ideas of Emile ...
On November 11th, 2021 Dr. Martin Kavka came to William and Mary to discuss the work of the twentieth-century Jewish philosopher Emil Fackenheim and the implications of his work for our contemporary ...
And then I attended Emil Fackenheim's graduate course on the philosophy of religion. The first day of class, Professor Fackenheim offered two maxims for our consideration: first, that good ...
A group of men were in a jail cell — among them, a young rabbinical student, Emil Fackenheim, who was destined to become one of modern Judaism’s most important thinkers. One of the older men ...
In Israel it's a fetish: A Jerusalem rabbinic court ruled that the adopted son of the late, famed Jewish philosopher Emil Fackenheim was not Jewish, and had never been Jewish, even though he had ...
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