Beliefs & Practices
The Private Heschel
Susannnah Heschel has a wonderful article in the Jewish Week about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, in which she writes ...
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
Jean Baudrillard, the maddeningly-obscure, but prophetic, French philosopher died earlier this week at the age of 77.Baudrillard wasn’t Jewish. But ...
UJ Accepts Gay Rabbinical Students
As expected, the University of Judaism made the first practical move toward integrating the Conservative movement’s new responsum on homosexuality: ...
Female Suicide Bombers
Slate asks the question on everyone’s mind: “If male martyrs can expect to find 72 virgin maidens in paradise when ...
Confronting Jewish Violence
Today is Shushan Purim, the day Purim is celebrated in cities that were “walled” at the time of Joshua. Most ...
Jewish Parenting
What should you do when your son refuses to go to Hebrew school? Or when your daughter asks you about ...
More Science & Judaism
For those of you who still can’t get enough science and Judaism reading, check out Noah Efron’s recently published Judaism ...
Readers Respond
This week’s Jewish Week includes three letters to the editor about Rabbi Michael Broyde’s article that I blogged about yesteday. ...
Dear Rabbi Broyde
In last week’s Jewish Week, Rabbi Michael Broyde — rabbi of the Young Israel of Toco Hills (Atlanta) and professor ...
Still in Kansas, Toto
More science and religion news today: For the fourth time in eight years, the Kansas Board of Education is preparing ...
Young Earth Creationist
In light of MJL’s new Science & Judaism section, the case of paleontologist Marcus Ross is worth noting. The New ...