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Ben Zion Bokser
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Rabbi, Forest Hills Jewish Center, Forest Hills, New York. Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Queens College, City University of New York. Author of The Legacy of Maimonides.

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Bronze statue of Maimonides, depicted with a beard and wearing a turban, shown from the chest up against a clear blue background.
Moses Maimonides was a Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician, the foremost intellectual figure of medieval Judaism. His first major work, begun at age 23 and completed 10 years later, was a commentary on the Mishna, the collected Jewish oral laws. A monumental code of Jewish law followed in…
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