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 | | Keepers of the flame of Judaism, these are people who are working in the twenty-first century but are deeply aware of their religious legacy, from Sephardic to Ashkenaz, from learned to comic. |
 | | The people here represent the rabbinate as the hard-to-define, impossible-to-categorize world that it is. Included are rabbis who are fixtures on talk shows, serious authors, scholars, the first woman rabbi, and the first Ethiopian rabbi. |
 | | Also discussed is the influence of Averroe's commentary on Plato's Republic, and the Machiavellian rejection of the theory of the philosopher-king and its influence upon early modern Jewish scholars, such as Simone Luzzatto and Spinoza, who rejected it in favor of a so-called Republican attitude. |
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