Eliezer Berkovits

Why Does Judaism Need So Many Rules, and What Do They Have to Do with Ethics?

Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Eliezer Berkovits, and the philosophy of halakhah.

Yonatan Brafman
Nov. 27 2023 12:01AM

The Return of a 60-Year-Old Dispute between Two of American Jewry’s Leading Theologians, and Why It Matters

Does God need man to stop His suffering?

Todd Berman
Jan. 5 2023 12:01AM

The Future of Jewish Education in the Age of Relativism

Revisiting Eliezer Berkovits’s classic essay.

Mark Gottlieb
July 18 2017 12:01AM

Fossilized Judaism

The codification of Jewish law, argued Eliezer Berkovits, was a price that had to be paid for Jewish survival in exile; but it has turned. . .

Aharon E. Wexler
June 21 2013 12:00AM