A life worth living, then, is one that fully experiences the present and experiments with new ways of being. Deleuze’s ethics ...

(Playwright), New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656 (Playwright), Venus in Fur (Playwright), The School for Lies (Playwright ...

The Book of Records is available in May 2025. Madeleine Thien is a short story writer and novelist. She is the author of novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the ...

The second term of Donald Trump’s presidency of the United States has begun. Half of the American population is elated. The other half is anxious, angry and fearful. In an article in America ...

Melamed sought access to the synagogue to make a documentary about Spinoza, whom the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam excommunicated in 1656 for writings that it deemed heretic.

“You have devoted your life to the study of Spinoza’s banned works and the development of his ideas,” Serfaty wrote to Yitzhak Melamed. (JTA) — More than 350 years after Baruch Spinoza was ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) – More than 350 years after this city’s Portuguese Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza and banned his writings for eternity, the philosopher’s books are for sale ...