You don’t want to be in these wars. This is not your grandfather’s battlefield. When the enemy is nested in homes and […]
Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) can also be an important part of the renaissance, as they are positioned to connect with Jews who […]
The Zionist thinker and Hebrew-language essayist Asher Ginsberg (better known by his pen-name, Ahad Ha’am) once said that “more than the Jews […]
To a great extent, not much changed from earlier decades in the Reform synagogue during the 1950s and well into the 1960s, […]
…the content of American-educated Orthodox rabbis’ English-language sermons was dramatically different from that of the (mostly) Yiddish-language sermons of an earlier generation. […]
The intermarriage of one Jewish individual is rarely a sudden occurrence. Rather, an individual’s choice to intermarry is a function of the […]
The denominations, and the seminaries where they train their rabbis, will have to recognize this and take a more holistic view of […]
The “sacred core” of the Reform Movement is personal sovereignty. In defining Judaism as a set of options from which Reform Jews […]
Rather than seeing Orthodoxy as a more or less fixed entity, with “modern” and “ultra” flavors, I suggest we look at it […]
The word tzedakah is untranslatable because it joins together two concepts that in other languages are opposites, namely charity and justice. Suppose, […]
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