“…virtual communities are more democratic and inclusive and, consequently, more substantive”
In some ways, the kinds of fellowship and intimacy forged and nurtured virtually tend...
“nonprofits are really reluctant to attempt any brave, daring, giant-scale new fundraising endeavors for fear that if the thing fails, their reputations will be dragged through the mud”
Disney can make a new $200 million movie that flops, and nobody calls the...
“American Christianity is generally not a religion of scholarship. It’s a religion of feeling and emotion”
Many Christians don’t know the Bible, nor do they care to know the Bible....
“No one is saying they dislike women who are capable of having children. But they might dislike additional labor costs”
Long leaves and part-time work protections might encourage women to scale back at work...
“Liberal civilizations…are better at sustaining meaningful lives than at commemorating the meaning of deaths”
Liberal civilizations, which depend on the assertion of the individual face, are better at...
“The rabbinate will become a healthier profession when…rabbis are able to become full-fledged human beings once again”
It’s time to pull your rabbi down from the pedestal. The rabbinate will become...
“We currently have no mechanism to track abusers as they hide their tracks by moving jobs or preying on the weak in our community…”
We currently have no mechanism to track abusers as they hide their tracks by...
“The claim that harder standards are more authentic is Jewishly invalid”
The claim that harder standards are more authentic is Jewishly invalid. “Fences” around the...
“…quite a bit of work remains to be done in terms of explaining the sources of the Talmud’s articulations of carnality and sexuality…”
Since the “Talmudo-Iranica” revolution, students of the Babylonian Talmud have proceeded to reexamine basic...
“…the internalization of the idea that haredi Judaism represents the touchstone and arbiter of Orthodox authenticity” has “placed Modern Orthodoxy on the defensive…”
Since the passing of Rabbi Soloveitchik from the scene some 30 years ago, the...