“It’s time for us to opt out of the racist paradigm because we are Jews”
…I call upon us all this year to reject our own self-labelling as white....
Category Archives: Jewish
“Rabbis in America and in Israel talk about political issues all the time, and maybe it is appropriate to ask whether that is a good policy for them and for the community”
Rabbis in America and in Israel are used to speaking about political issues. They...
“The third element of the Tosafist enterprise, and the final stage chronologically, was the process of editing”
The third element of the Tosafist enterprise, and the final stage chronologically, was the...
“…this football thing that we never tire of down here takes our minds off these and other issues, if only momentarily”
We Americans, especially Jews and supporters of Israel, are facing daunting issues: growing anti-Semitism,...
“They can teach us something about the world outlook of the various story-tellers all along the chain of transmission…”
To venture one more clarification of my approach, I agree wholeheartedly with the comment...
“…almost all Israeli Jews emerged from backgrounds that knew nothing of denominational Jewish differences or liberal approaches to the Jewish religion”
While Israel is a highly pluralistic society, with Jews coming from all parts of...
“Eschewing a sense of entitlement and control in favor of a sense of meaning and potential is the work of the High Holiday season”
Eschewing a sense of entitlement and control in favor of a sense of meaning...
“The Jewish community doesn’t care about art. … The art world doesn’t care about religion.”
The Jewish community doesn’t care about art. Not real art, anyway. The art world...
“On the issue of Israel, the Jewish community has become a toxic place”
On the issue of Israel, the Jewish community has become a toxic place. The...
“In the era of Big Torah, all of the arguments are on the table, and there are legitimate leaders who are charting the course to anywhere we want to go”
If scientists and engineers now live in the world of Big Data, then we...