Leora Batnitzky - "How Judaism Became a Religion"

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Leora Batnitzky discusses how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period-and why Jewish thinkers have fought as well as championed this idea. Ever since the Enlightenment, Jewish thinkers have debated whether and how Judaism-largely a religion of practice and public adherence to law-can fit into a modern, Protestant conception of religion as an individual and private matter of belief or faith.