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Where Have All the Theologians Gone?
The week The Forward has an op-ed from Elliot Cosgrove, a young, dynamic rabbi out of Chicago, asking “Where Have ...
Dealing with the God Question
Secular humanistic parents and educators face unique challenges in speaking to kids about God.
Are you Jewish?
So while sitting at the offices of MyJewishLearning, we heard a knock on the door. Low and behold it was ...
Religion in the Public Square
Rabbi Debra Landsberg has posted a thoughtful reply to a comment I posted on her blog about a comment she ...
Karaites Revisited
Back in November, I blogged about the Karaite representation at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly.I wrote:But perhaps most fascinating ...
Anti-Semitic Liturgy
In light of Eli Stern’s op-ed about interfaith dialogue that I blogged about yesterday, this news story about Orthodox Christians ...
Klinghoffer Watch
Thanks to LastTrumpet over at Jewschool for weighing in with a critique of David Klinghoffer’s latest Forward op-ed. It’s hard ...
Fundamentalist Relativism
In this week’s Jewish Week, Rabbi Eliyahu Stern addresses an issue I raised a few weeks ago in reference to ...
Israeli Certainty
According to a new poll, 85% of Israelis believe in God, while 12% are atheists. The interesting part of the ...
Meir Soloveichik on Interfaith Dialogue
This month’s issue of Commentary includes a lengthy essay by Meir Soloveichik, in which he rejects theological interfaith dialogue. Soloveichik ...
The Segulah Trap
Feeling superstitious? Recently The Jewish Week took a look at segulot, Jewish good luck charms. Turns out that they’re not so Jewish after ...
The Private Heschel
Susannnah Heschel has a wonderful article in the Jewish Week about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, in which she writes ...