“…how did a people that envisions itself in prayer as a community of tents, itinerant in the wilderness, become so fixated on construction projects?”
The fact that Oz is an outspoken opponent of occupation and the policies required...
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“I want to know what my rabbi thinks of Jacob and Rachel, not of Pence and Pelosi”
I know outstanding rabbis on the left of the political spectrum and others on...
“I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has been an increase in the permissibility of the expressions of anti-Semitism and its amplification by the tools of social media”
I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has...
“…it is, I think, the biggest, the one most central to the debates within Orthodoxy today, and the most personal”
It is impossible to credit the claim that it doesn’t matter at all to...
“The claim of anti-Semitism is particularly non-credible to Trump’s supporters”
The claim of anti-Semitism is particularly non-credible to Trump’s supporters. Not to the deplorables,...
“The Jewish mix of particular and universal is not easy to figure out, for Jews or anyone else”
Up to modernity, Jews and non-Jews lived within boundaries, well defined from within and...
“…for Bannon, and many on the Trumpian right, the crucial political divide in today’s world is between internationalists (who they call “globalists”) and nationalists”
…for Bannon, and many on the Trumpian right, the crucial political divide in today’s...
“There are women who are learned and it is only fitting that they too have a title”
…I still don’t see the objection to female clergy. I am not talking about...
“Gadolhood is less about the individual erudition of a given rabbi and more about a social fact…”
Gadolhood is less about the individual erudition of a given rabbi and more about...
“My fellow activists tend to dismiss the anti-Semitism that students like me experience regularly on campus”
My fellow activists tend to dismiss the anti-Semitism that students like me experience regularly...