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Warren Zev Harvey

Warren Zev Harvey is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he has taught since 1977.

  • Bas relief of Maimonides in the U.S House of Representatives
    Bas relief of Maimonides in the U.S House of Representatives
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    One Maimonides or Two?

    Isadore Twersky vs. Leo Strauss, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Moshe Halbertal, and the faculty of Harvard University

    byWarren Zev Harvey
  • Menachem Elon, early 1980s
    Menachem Elon, early 1980s
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    Redefining Israel’s Reasonableness Test

    Israeli Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon sought to ground the court’s controversial doctrine in empirical data and hard logic, with the help of the Talmud

    byWarren Zev Harvey
  • ‘The desire to prefer the executive branch over the judicial branch seems to Rabbi Nissim to be fundamentally un-Jewish’
    ‘The desire to prefer the executive branch over the judicial branch seems to Rabbi Nissim to be fundamentally un-Jewish’
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    Is Bibi’s ‘Override Clause’ Jewish?

    Ask the 14th-century sage Rabbi Nissim of Girona

    byWarren Zev Harvey
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    A Guide of the Perplexed

    How Philadelphia’s local ‘Jewish Exponent’ came to host in 1963 S.D. Goitein’s insightful but overlooked scholarly essay on Maimonides, now reprinted here

    byWarren Zev Harvey
  • Clockwise from top left: Michael Zvi Nehorai, Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin, David Brézis, Michael Schneider (pictured with his wife Leah Schneider)
    Clockwise from top left: Michael Zvi Nehorai, Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin, David Brézis, Michael Schneider (pictured with his wife Leah Schneider)
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    Four Scholars of Jewish Philosophy

    The recent deaths of Michael Schneider, David Brézis, Michael Zvi Nehorai, and Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin signal the passing of an era of excellence

    byWarren Zev Harvey
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