This book reviews, organizes and categorizes the humor of the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and the Midrash, and presents it to the reader in a clear, readable, accessible manner. These works, replete with many types of humor and wit, have influenced the Jewish people in a major way over the...

MIT emerged from “nowhere” in the 1930s to its place as one of the three or four most important sites for economic research by the mid-1950s. A conference held at Duke University in April 2013 examined how this occurred. In this paper the author argues that the immediate postwar period saw a...

Theodor Herzl's thought was a product of an Austrian political and humanist culture. His political values were formed within a multinational, cameralist tradition, which at its best bred a tolerance for differing persons and cultures but isolated the private individual from a responsible role in...

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, data were taken from the most recent World Values Survey. More than 62 percent of the Jewish sample believed that taking a bribe could...

In this article, I argue that beyond identifiable instances of extortion and abuse, the threat of being a chained wife disempowers women in divorce negotiations in a manner that is fundamentally problematic and must be remedied in a manner different than remedies often discussed that focus on...