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 ...

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.

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 ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: One is never permitted to leave Eretz Yisrael for the diaspora except to learn Torah or to get married.

“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 ...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has instructed his office to add the tomb of the Rambam (Maimonides) in the city of Tiberias to the list of Israeli heritage sites. The Rambam, who lived in Egypt in ...

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 ...

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 ...

“From Moses to Moses there has been no man like Moses,” said Israel’s President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, and the audience assembled in Jerusalem’s Rav Kook Institute one day last week recognized the old Jewish ...