Yeshiva College has also changed along with the broader landscape of higher education. We still have impressively bright, industrious, passionate students. But […]
Read moreIt’s a mistake to put Netanyahu in the same category as the strongmen riding Europe’s rightist wave. But it is not a […]
Read moreWhen it finally sunk in that I’m not the next Nabokov, I got pretty depressed for a while. I started to wish […]
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…what has to change in the world of Jewish philanthropy and fundraising to make the system less beholden to deformed power structures. […]
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Birthright Israel, the nonprofit organization that Steinhardt started in 1999 with his billionaire friend Charles Bronfman to fund free trips to Israel […]
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Until he was brought down by revelations of decades of sexual harassment, sociologist Steven M. Cohen made a career linking intermarriage with […]
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…halakha is currently paying a steep price for Orthodoxy’s exclusion of the queer community. Halakha’s *discriminatory attitude toward the gay community alienates […]
Read moreThe term “gender critical” is really a euphemism recently created to replace TERF with a phrase that doesn’t have such negative connotations. […]
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The default posture of “believing women” conflicts with conceptions of justice predicated on the presumption of innocence, and that guilt must be […]
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Modern Orthodoxy is hard to understand and harder to live. Orthodoxy is a set of views and behaviors that is governed by […]
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I sincerely doubt the Prime Minister of Israel is directing anyone to interrogate Peter Beinart or Reza Aslan; but I do believe […]
…virtually every time management expert’s first piece of advice is to keep a detailed log of your time use, but doing so […]
Young orators’ tongues are formed before their minds are set. This happened to Martin Luther King, Jr., who had to inhabit a […]
For far too long, we have overly praised volunteers for bringing outside expertise to our organizations, while underinvesting in the ongoing professional […]
One of the greatest paradoxes of “the American Jewish establishment” is that it is only believed to really exist by those who […]
You can seek to impose order on your inbox all you like – but eventually you’ll need to confront the fact that […]
The very things that can make the center so appealing, however, are also its great weaknesses. As worried centrists have long noted, […]
Spending hours a day answering emails can stand in the way of getting other things done. One recent study shows that on […]
…while Jewish organizations should be allowed to exercise caution about their overt structural partnerships with those protesting them outside, the quick mapping […]
…a larger political phenomenon in the Jewish community…on the disincentivizing of all forms of “courageous leadership” by relatively small numbers of individuals […]
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