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Blogging Avot: Bad Neighbors
Pirkei Avot 1:7 is a short mishnah with further advice about who to (and in this case, who not to) ...
Peoplehood is so vacant, it’s vacuous
In last week’s Forward, Jay Michaelson entered the Peoplehood debate with force, simultaneously acknowledging his own sense of connection to ...
Muslims and Jews
-As Jewish-Muslim interfaith efforts intensify, critics say that Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is selective in which acts of terrorism ...
People or Religion
In honor of the debate I had with Ariel Beery this week about distinctions between Jewish Peoplehood and the Jewish ...
Christians and Jews
-An “observant Catholic with Jewish tendencies, and … a Jew sobered up from a drugged out mysticism� combine to write ...
Ultra Nomenclature
In the Forward this week, Abbott Katz begins his plea for new Jewish nomenclature with: “Stop calling me an ultra-Orthodox ...
Messianic Jews in Israel
Last week, a 15 year-old boy had to have his leg amputated after being wounded by an exploding Purim gift ...
From the Academy: Kissing Kabbalists
In this installment of “From the Academy,� Dr. Joel Hecker, Chair of the Department of Modern Jewish Civilization and Associate ...
Why Celibacy Is Not a Jewish Value
This practice is rare in Judaism and goes against the commandment to procreate.
Guide for the Halachic Minyan
More and more Orthodox women are exploring the boundaries of their participation in communal Jewish prayer. An Israeli couple has ...
Brain Death & Jewish Law
Jewish bioethicists, across the denominational spectrum, tend to consider that cessation of breathing (which is connected to brain stem activity) ...
More About Peoplehood
Talking about the decline of Jewish Peoplehood was all the rage in 2007. But the debate between Jewcy’s Joey Kurtzman ...