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 at the ...

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed Uriel Da Costa and Spinoza and their encounters with the Jewish religious authorities, ...

"New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza" strides back into Theater J after its acclaimed 2010 run as an established hit, and the show's success is no mystery. The David Ives script is ...

(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 at the souvenir shop ...

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) has long appealed to skeptics and secularists. In the 18th century, “Spinozism” was a synonym for atheism. Shelley channeled him in his own arguments for atheism, George ...

An international appeal to honor the memory of Baruch Spinoza, on the occasion of the approaching two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his death, February 21, 1927, was issued by the American ...

In the beginning was Uriel da Costa. Then came Baruch Spinoza. A mercurial recusant born in 1585 in Porto, Portugal, da Costa was a Catholic scion of prosperous Portuguese crypto-Jewish Conversos who ...

Baruch Spinoza’s life was a product of paradox. The 17th century, in Europe, was a time of both barbarous sectarianism and unprecedented human achievement. It was an era of new ideas — ideas that ...

Rachel Kadish’s "The Weight of Ink" is like A.S. Byatt's "Possession," but with more seventeenth-century Judaism. The world is full of secret places. Behind a cupboard door, concealed by a secret ...

Little known is the life of Michael Spinoza, Baruch Spinoza’s father, but he was a loyal son of Israel and follower of the Amsterdam rabbinate. On July 27, 1656, the leadership of the Sephardic ...