“Steering away from the issue might feel safe, but that avoidance is detrimental and dangerous”
In my experience, many, if not most, 20 to 40-year olds in the modern...
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“…the concept of the ben sorer umoreh raises essential questions for parents who strive to build loving relationships with their children”
The law, as defined by the Talmud, ensures that it is virtually impossible for...
“With rates of suicide and drug abuse as high as they are in America, Chabad.org recognizes that these are the moments when they have a chance of connecting to, and helping, a specific audience”
There is a cliché that “There are no atheists in a fox hole.” Chabad...
“Chabad’s site is an open gym, but the exercise is religious education and practice”
The gym may be open 24 hours. This allows those who work, have families,...
“…the reconciliation of the Torah’s discussion of homosexuality represents the single most formidable religious challenge for our young people today”
This may surprise many adults, but the reconciliation of the Torah’s discussion of homosexuality...
“One may assume that to be both punk and Jewish is a paradox…, but the community is still growing and continues to have an online presence”
The blogging community can easily find common themes from one Jewish Punk website to...
“If there is, indeed, any such thing as a ‘New Anti-Semitism’, it is ‘new’ in the sense that it does not fit the historical pattern of ancient anti-Semitism…”
If there is, indeed, any such thing as a “New Anti-Semitism”, it is “new”...
“The best part of Chabad’s site is that it appeals to all ages”
By the mid-1980s, computers had been introduced to the average home; they had also...
“There is clearly a desire on the street to ‘grow’ Orthodoxy and invite into it those who have been heretofore excluded”
There is clearly a desire on the street to “grow” Orthodoxy and invite into...
“…it is a fruitless quest to continue to try to find elusive rabbinic sources for everything which Paul wrote”
In the case of Paul and the rabbis, let us assume that, at no...