Yeshiva College has also changed along with the broader landscape of higher education. We still have impressively bright, industrious, passionate students. But […]
It’s a mistake to put Netanyahu in the same category as the strongmen riding Europe’s rightist wave. But it is not a […]
When it finally sunk in that I’m not the next Nabokov, I got pretty depressed for a while. I started to wish […]
…what has to change in the world of Jewish philanthropy and fundraising to make the system less beholden to deformed power structures. […]
Birthright Israel, the nonprofit organization that Steinhardt started in 1999 with his billionaire friend Charles Bronfman to fund free trips to Israel […]
Until he was brought down by revelations of decades of sexual harassment, sociologist Steven M. Cohen made a career linking intermarriage with […]
…halakha is currently paying a steep price for Orthodoxy’s exclusion of the queer community. Halakha’s *discriminatory attitude toward the gay community alienates […]
The term “gender critical” is really a euphemism recently created to replace TERF with a phrase that doesn’t have such negative connotations. […]
The default posture of “believing women” conflicts with conceptions of justice predicated on the presumption of innocence, and that guilt must be […]
Modern Orthodoxy is hard to understand and harder to live. Orthodoxy is a set of views and behaviors that is governed by […]
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