DANIEL SPIRO
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Welcome!

This website serves as a guide to my three books, a compilation of many of my essays and other short writings, and an introduction to the two organizations that I have founded.  I encourage you to peruse each of the pages on this site and grapple with some of the religious, political and philosophical issues confronted here.  You honor me by taking the time to join me on this journey.   

Visit my newest page -- Peace and Polarization
Recent Essays:

Read "Spinoza, the God-Intoxicated 'Atheist'," published by a Czech philosophical journal as the lead article for their 2024 international edition. Go to https://aither.upol.cz/ 
and click on the blue button marked "Otevrit cele cislo (PDF)." 

Read Daniel's Diaries on the May 2021 fighting between Israel and Palestinian (submitted in reverse chronological order).

Read the essay on American Political Polarization, which Daniel delivered at the May 2021 meeting of the Jewish-Islamic Dialogue Society of Washington.

Read the essay entitled "Spinoza on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity," which Daniel wrote and delivered at the October 2020 meeting of the Washington Spinoza Society.

Read Daniel's 2020 Purim essay, which analyzes his favorite verse in the entire Hebrew Bible:  Samuel 1, Chapter 1, Verse 11 (commonly known as "Hannah's Prayer").

Read the essay entitled "Spinoza and Altruism," which Daniel wrote and delivered at the September 2021 meeting of the Washington Spinoza Society.

Read the essay entitled "Humility -- A Religious and Philosophical Exploration of the Term," which Daniel wrote and delivered at the January 2020 meeting of the Washington Spinoza Society.

Read the essay entitled "Jew Versus Jew: How Incomplete Visions of the Faith are Dividing the People," which Daniel wrote in response to the schism among Jews in confronting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.  


Read Daniel's 2019 Purim essay, which examined the essence of dignity and why this concept is essential to authentic religion and yet so incredibly misunderstood by the society at large. 

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