As they formulate a school response to the war, educators might consider three important lessons derived from “Hearts and Minds,” a recent […]
There’s little sense of a common good, no rules that everybody follows so that nobody gets a raw deal. Instead there’s an […]
The catalyst for pro football’s breakthrough in the latter half of the 1950s and 1960s was the new medium of television. The […]
Thanksgiving is a much needed model for an increasingly secular American Jewry. Where “cultural Judaism” is often “soft” and “optional”, Thanksgiving has […]
“. When online recappers expend thousands of words debating the depiction of rape on “Game of Thrones,” or when writers publish histories […]
Who in the Orthodox community is engaging in original Jewish thought? While Christians have created a 21st-century academic discipline of religious thought, […]
A number of years ago I asked someone in Merkaz ha-Rav how his yeshiva differed from the haredi yeshivot, since in both […]
In sum, it is problematic to assume that individuals, even if they share a willingness to stretch the boundaries of Orthodoxy, form […]
When the community is mindfully organized, it will have even more substantive and creative interactions during opportunities to meet face-to-face. Most of […]
For thousands of years to be a Jew meant being afraid. Afraid of anti-Semites, afraid of pogroms, afraid of the Church, afraid […]
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