“How can we speak of reverence for man and of the belief that all men are created equal without repenting the way we promote the vulgarization of existence?”
Survival, mere continuation of being, is a condition man has in common with animals....
“I’m baffled by couples who neglect having sex, especially younger ones…”
I’m baffled by couples who neglect having sex, especially younger ones. We all desire...
“Segments of Orthodoxy claim to engage in neo-hasidut but it is mostly relegated to surface-level singing and dancing…”
Segments of Orthodoxy claim to engage in neo-hasidut, but it is mostly relegated to...
“Much of Israel’s recent history is the gradual movement of Rabbi Maimon’s squiggle — and of other historical squiggles — from the margins of the founding Document, and the ethos it meant to enshrine, to the center”
God, to whom all pre-modern and even many modern Jews ascribed not only the...
“The deep sense of frustration many singles experience is compounded by a community that they feel judges and blames them”
Many singles experience a huge amount of pain and frustration as they struggle for...
“…for most of the Jewish public in Israel, Jewish identity…is a fundamental, central, and irreplaceable component in any worldview or aspiration for the future”
…unless there is a change of consciousness of Marxist proportions among the Israeli people,...
“Israel’s secular elites had quite deliberately estranged themselves from, and weaned their children off, their own Jewish cultural resources…”
Israel’s secular elites had quite deliberately estranged themselves from, and weaned their children off,...
“Middle Eastern states are imploding and exploding all around, and what is coming to replace them is, interestingly, not nationalism”
Regionally — we are, finally, witnessing the collapse of the nation state order put...
“Israel has been for several years in the midst of a wonderful and creative Golden Age…”
…I want to tell you in case you have not heard, that for decades...
“The Rev. James W. Fifield…paired Christianity and capitalism against the New Deal’s ‘pagan statism'”
The Rev. James W. Fifield — known as “the 13th Apostle of Big Business”...