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In the historiography of Judaism in the Polish lands the influence of Reform Judaism is often overlooked. The opinion is frequently cited that the Polish Jews were tied to tradition and did not accept ideas of religious reform coming from the West. This paper fills the gap in historiography by giving some examples of activities of progressive communities and their leaders. It focuses mainly on eminent rabbis and preachers such as Abraham Goldschmidt, Markus Jastrow, and Izaak Cylkow. Supporters of progressive Judaism in Poland did not have as strong a position as representatives of the Reform or Conservative Judaism in Germany or the United States. Religious reforms introduced by them were for a number of reasons moderate or limited. However, one cannot ignore this movement in the history of Judaism in Poland, since that trend was significant for the history of Jews in Poland and Polish-Jewish relations.

For centuries Benedict Spinoza has been regarded as
everything from an antisemite to anti- Biblical. These and similar charges
are not supported by recent analyses. Spinoza was an intellectual figure
who believed deeply in a Deity while opening up the Torah to the same
kind of criticism that would be seen in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Not a "liberal" in the modern political sense, he expressed a
passionate faith in freedom of conscience. Not a modern epistemologist,
he built his knowledge theory on intuitive reasoning which is similar to
that of contemporary physicists. Spinoza is a unique figure in Jewish
intellectual history and deserves to be seen as a Jewish philosopher
who anticipated biblical criticism by two centuries.

Depuis trois décennies, en Amérique du Nord, en Europe occidentale et en Israël, les joubous (juifs-bouddhistes) sont les acteurs d'une synthèse spirituelle inédite. Sur la base de matériaux ethnographiques et documentaires, cet article entend mettre en lumière les processus d'interpénétration culturels et religieux entre bouddhisme et judaïsme, et leurs conséquences : bricolages, conversion, ou retour au judaïsme à partir desquelles se pose la question de la pérennité de ce « judaïsme bouddhisé ».

The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture is an authoritative and accessible reference work for a twenty-first-century audience. Its entries, written by eminent scholars, define the spiritual and intellectual concepts and religious movements that distinguish Judaism and the Jewish experience; they discuss central personalities and places, formative events and enduring literary and cultural contributions and they illuminate the lives of ordinary Jewish men and women. Essays explore Jewish history from ancient times to the present and consider all aspects of Judaism, including religious practices and rituals, legal teachings and legendary traditions and rationalism, mysticism and messianism. This reference work differs from many others in its broad exploration of the Jewish experience beyond Judaism. Entries discuss secular and political movements and achievements and delineate Jewish endeavors in literature, art, music, theater, dance, film, broadcasting, sports, science, medicine and ecology, among many other topics from the Bible to the Internet

This volume of collected essays seeks to tackle the question of scepticism in an Early Jewish context, including Ecclesiastes and other Jewish Second Temple works, rabbinic literature, and reflections of Jewish thought in early Christian and patristic writings.

Le lien entre pensée philosophique et pensée juive chez Hermann Cohen se confond avec son concept de raison ou de rationalité. Dès ses premiers travaux, il s'attache à éprouver la dimension universaliste de la tradition juive. Or la rationalité du judaïsme réside, selon lui, dans l'idée d'une morale universelle, qui se manifeste avant tout dans la pensée messianique. Ce lien apparaît le plus clairement dans les écrits qui font converger le judaïsme et la philosophie kantienne dans l'horizon de la raison. Sous l'aspect de la philosophie pratique, cette convergence rejoint le projet politique de l'assimilation du judaïsme et de la culture allemande.