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Hanukah, Judaism

“A mature adult faith demands that we take in difficult, painful facts and allow them to become part of our understandings of God, our language of faith and connection”

A mature adult faith demands that we take in difficult, painful facts and allow...

Modern Orthodoxy

To understand modern Orthodoxy, we must view “Orthodoxy” within its larger social, economic, and...

Art

Pressed to an extreme, inequities, both visible and symbolic, become a source of social...

America, Politics in America

And too often we forget that the people in these countries are not just...

America, Mexico

Americans now make up more than three-quarters of Mexico’s roughly one million documented foreigners,...

Halakhah, Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Rabbis

…the ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends, to a...

Babylonian Talmud

It should be remembered that recycling is not a modern Western concept, but is...

Babylonian Talmud

As in earlier periods, the staple crops were wheat, barley and dates. A daily...

Haredim/Haredi-ism, Society

The way to rectify corrupt sexual mores is by replacing them with a healthy...

Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy

Despite Rabbi Lamm’s eloquent and intellectually sophisticated elucidations of the Modern Orthodox world view,...