A 500-year-old edition of Moses ben Maimon (also known as Maimonides or by his Hebrew acronym Rambam)’s “Guide for the Perplexed” is going to be auctioned at a starting price of $1 million on Tuesday.

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In Dara Horn’s first novel, “In the Image,” published in 2002, Rosenthal, an elderly Jewish immigrant, tells young Jason about crossing the Atlantic in steerage. When the ship finally approached the ...

The Guide for the Perplexedis an outstanding sefer. However, it’s not meant for everyone. Its main target is Torah scholars since the sefer was written for the generation of the Rambam, and it mainly ...

Jay Harris the author of the in-depth important and enlightening book “Guiding the Perplexed of the Modern Age.”[1] It is a well-organized study of an important nineteenth-century Jewish scholar and ...

Dara Horn's fourth novel is one of those enthralling, excessive works so stuffed with ideas and images as to be sometimes maddening. "Why," I found myself asking, "do we need to meet Maimonides ...

About 800 years before the Pew study, Moses Maimonides received a worried letter from the leader of the Jewish community of Yemen asking him how to combat the specter of assimilation. Yemenite Jews ...

There are so many positive elements to Joel Drake Johnson’s new play “A Guide for the Perplexed” — receiving its premiere at Victory Gardens in Chicago — that it’s nearly possible to overlook its ...