“Historically, ideological matters were kept separate from halakhah”
Historically, ideological matters were kept separate from halakhah. The various rabbinic organizations in Europe...
Monthly Archives: February 2017
“All administrations lie, but what we are seeing here is an attack on credibility itself”
In a stunning demonstration of the power and resiliency of our new post-factual political...
“Bill Clinton’s Presidency was so lacking in history-making events, yet so crowded with the embarrassing minutiae of scandalmongering, that it was easy to miss the great change that those years meant for the country and the Democratic Party”
Bill Clinton’s Presidency was so lacking in history-making events, yet so crowded with the...
“The goals of tzeniut can only be fulfilled in a society that fosters intimacy and empathy”
The unconscionable physical and verbal violence against women in Beit Shemesh and elsewhere have...
“There is no substantial evidence to see if Aish’s movement is more effective than Chabad’s, but the more modern approach to the material does continue to set the difference in tone in these two online orthodox movements”
Like Chabad, Aish provides links to information about their schools and drop-in classes. The...
“…the true Jewish ethos of modesty does not exclusively pertain to sexuality…”
The topic of “tzniut” or “modesty” has recently become a prominent point of discussion...
“Only 1 percent to 7 percent of children who commit sexual offenses will do it again…”
The expansion of sex offender laws to include juveniles was based on the assumption...
“In the ghetto narrative, a poor neighborhood falls victim to isolation; in the gentrification narrative, a poor neighborhood falls victim to invasion”
In the ghetto narrative, a poor neighborhood falls victim to isolation; in the gentrification...
“The dangers presented by leaks are clearly not lost on the Trump administration, but neither are the opportunities”
Early coverage of the Trump administration has been defined by seemingly panoptical accounts from...
“A public understanding of science is not well served by shackling science to a national-security state”
The nuclear-winter debate has long since been forgotten, but you can still spy it...