Ari Ackerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 461193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ari Ackerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ari |
| FAMILY NAME | Ackerman |
| SIGNATURE | ACKERMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2298-602X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disability disrupts state violence at Broadview protest
On Friday, October 3, 2025, the state produced a war zone with militarized technology and the deployment of armed police officers, who attacked a group of protesters outside Broadview Detention Center, Illinois. Interactions between the police and two d/Disabled protesters reveal the embodied vulnerability of disability, as well as the potential of disability to disrupt police protocol and state power
Expressivist Religious Zionism: Modernity and the sacred in a nationalist movement
Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror
Intimate war across borders: Terrifying encounters, recognition, and "the Colombian armed conflict" in Quito, Ecuador
Much anthropological scholarship on war-particularly "civil war"-focuses on violence perpetrated between organized political groups within the confines of a national space. In contrast, this article examines how "internal armed conflict" manifests across international borders, irrupting as interpersonal violence in spaces that are supposedly external to war. More specifically, I demonstrate how "the Colombian armed conflict" unfolds between refug…
“Everything I Have Seen There, That I Know …”: Witnessing the Colombian armed conflict through refugees’ narratives of implication
In this article, I engage with the predicament of witnessing as a condition for persecution and displacement. I argue that observing violence during war is a critical form of implication. In the context of the Colombian armed conflict, members of armed groups often threaten the lives of those who observe their acts of violence, producing a chain of terror that extends outward from the original moment of witnessing. This chain of violence collapse…
The genesis of and internal tensions in the halakhic philosophy of Yeshayahu Leibowitz
The main focus of scholarship on Yeshayahu Leibowitz's philosophy and social criticism has been on his books and articles that were composed after his immigration to Palestine in 1935 at the age of 32. Little attention has been paid to Leibowitz's first efforts in forging his philosophical outlook that preceded his move to Palestine. This initial literary activity was produced in German between 1929 and 1932 when Leibowitz resided in Germany and …
Eliezer Schweid’s Scholarly and Philosophical Exploration of Theological Responses to the Holocaust
Eliezer Schweid, one of the most important contemporary scholars of Jewish thought, devoted two volumes to analyzing theological responses to the Holocaust. Wrestling until Daybreak (1990) covered a diverse range of non-Orthodox Jewish thinkers, and Between Destruction and Redemption (1994) examined ultra-Orthodox Holocaust theology. This article will examine how scholarship, philosophy, and theology are intertwined in these two volumes
Ḥasdai Crescas and Scholastic Philosophers on the Possible Existence of Multiple Simultaneous Worlds
Scholars who examine the possible influence of scholastic writers on Crescas’ treatment of the existence of multiple worlds have thus far focused on Nicole Oresme’s Latin and French works. It is proposed here that Crescas may have been influenced by Thomas Aquinas’ treatment of the multiple worlds. More specifically, Crescas’ first two arguments for the existence of multiple worlds, presented in the fourth treatise of Or Hashem , are compared wit…
Zerahia Halevi Saladin and Joseph Albo on Natural, Conventional and Divine Law
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Ḥasdai Crescas on the Philosophic Foundation of Codification
Ḥasdai Crescas briefly adumbrated his halakhic methodology in the introduction to his philosophic work, 'Or ha-Shem. He followed Maimonides by arguing for the importance of a comprehensive and succinct legal code and opposed himself to those who ascribe independent value to Torah study. However, Crescas disputed Maimonides on the proper goals and character of a legal code. Unlike Maimonides, he designated his code for Torah scholars and focused o…
Zerahia Halevi Saladin and Thomas Aquinas on Vows
This article examines two medieval sermons that examine philosophic and halakhic issues: the Passover sermon of Hasdai Crescas, which discusses the laws of Passover, and a sermon of Zerahia Halevi Saladin, a disciple of Crescas, which probes an aspect of the laws of vows ( nedarim ). In the analysis of Zerahia’s sermon, a comparison is made between his discussion and Thomas Aquinas’s examination of vows in his Summa Theologica . The comparison es…
Taurodont, pyramidal and fused molar roots associated with other anomalies in a kindred
Crown characteristics have been the parameter most frequently utilized in studies of tooth morphology. Dental root structures have received relatively little attention. Examination of unusual molar roots in a kindred has enabled us to (1) establish a typology for classifying molar roots, (2) devise a methodology for evaluating the degree of taurodontism and (3) hypothesize about phylogenetic, ontogenetic and genetic aspects of root morphology. Th…
Taurodont, pyramidal and fused molar roots associated with other anomalies in a kindred
Crown characteristics have been the parameter most frequently utilized in studies of tooth morphology. Dental root structures have received relatively little attention. Examination of unusual molar roots in a kindred has enabled us to (1) establish a typology for classifying molar roots, (2) devise a methodology for evaluating the degree of taurodontism and (3) hypothesize about phylogenetic, ontogenetic and genetic aspects of root morphology. Th…
Taurodont, pyramidal and fused molar roots associated with other anomalies in a kindred
Crown characteristics have been the parameter most frequently utilized in studies of tooth morphology. Dental root structures have received relatively little attention. Examination of unusual molar roots in a kindred has enabled us to (1) establish a typology for classifying molar roots, (2) devise a methodology for evaluating the degree of taurodontism and (3) hypothesize about phylogenetic, ontogenetic and genetic aspects of root morphology. Th…
Zerahia Halevi Saladin and Thomas Aquinas on Vows
This article examines two medieval sermons that examine philosophic and halakhic issues: the Passover sermon of Hasdai Crescas, which discusses the laws of Passover, and a sermon of Zerahia Halevi Saladin, a disciple of Crescas, which probes an aspect of the laws of vows ( nedarim ). In the analysis of Zerahia’s sermon, a comparison is made between his discussion and Thomas Aquinas’s examination of vows in his Summa Theologica . The comparison es…
Zerahia Halevi Saladin and Joseph Albo on Natural, Conventional and Divine Law
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Ḥasdai Crescas on the Philosophic Foundation of Codification
Ḥasdai Crescas briefly adumbrated his halakhic methodology in the introduction to his philosophic work, 'Or ha-Shem. He followed Maimonides by arguing for the importance of a comprehensive and succinct legal code and opposed himself to those who ascribe independent value to Torah study. However, Crescas disputed Maimonides on the proper goals and character of a legal code. Unlike Maimonides, he designated his code for Torah scholars and focused o…
Ḥasdai Crescas and Scholastic Philosophers on the Possible Existence of Multiple Simultaneous Worlds
Scholars who examine the possible influence of scholastic writers on Crescas’ treatment of the existence of multiple worlds have thus far focused on Nicole Oresme’s Latin and French works. It is proposed here that Crescas may have been influenced by Thomas Aquinas’ treatment of the multiple worlds. More specifically, Crescas’ first two arguments for the existence of multiple worlds, presented in the fourth treatise of Or Hashem , are compared wit…
Eliezer Schweid’s Scholarly and Philosophical Exploration of Theological Responses to the Holocaust
Eliezer Schweid, one of the most important contemporary scholars of Jewish thought, devoted two volumes to analyzing theological responses to the Holocaust. Wrestling until Daybreak (1990) covered a diverse range of non-Orthodox Jewish thinkers, and Between Destruction and Redemption (1994) examined ultra-Orthodox Holocaust theology. This article will examine how scholarship, philosophy, and theology are intertwined in these two volumes
“Everything I Have Seen There, That I Know …”: Witnessing the Colombian armed conflict through refugees’ narratives of implication
In this article, I engage with the predicament of witnessing as a condition for persecution and displacement. I argue that observing violence during war is a critical form of implication. In the context of the Colombian armed conflict, members of armed groups often threaten the lives of those who observe their acts of violence, producing a chain of terror that extends outward from the original moment of witnessing. This chain of violence collapse…
The genesis of and internal tensions in the halakhic philosophy of Yeshayahu Leibowitz
The main focus of scholarship on Yeshayahu Leibowitz's philosophy and social criticism has been on his books and articles that were composed after his immigration to Palestine in 1935 at the age of 32. Little attention has been paid to Leibowitz's first efforts in forging his philosophical outlook that preceded his move to Palestine. This initial literary activity was produced in German between 1929 and 1932 when Leibowitz resided in Germany and …
Expressivist Religious Zionism: Modernity and the sacred in a nationalist movement
Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror
Intimate war across borders: Terrifying encounters, recognition, and "the Colombian armed conflict" in Quito, Ecuador
Much anthropological scholarship on war-particularly "civil war"-focuses on violence perpetrated between organized political groups within the confines of a national space. In contrast, this article examines how "internal armed conflict" manifests across international borders, irrupting as interpersonal violence in spaces that are supposedly external to war. More specifically, I demonstrate how "the Colombian armed conflict" unfolds between refug…
Disability disrupts state violence at Broadview protest
On Friday, October 3, 2025, the state produced a war zone with militarized technology and the deployment of armed police officers, who attacked a group of protesters outside Broadview Detention Center, Illinois. Interactions between the police and two d/Disabled protesters reveal the embodied vulnerability of disability, as well as the potential of disability to disrupt police protocol and state power
Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)