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Conservative Halakhah and Homosexuality

An insider's view of the 2006 CJLS gay vote.

Rushkoff Responds

In discussing the “Next Big Jewish Idea” question, I cited Douglas Rushkoff’s writing on business innovation and noted his book ...

Debating God

Over at Jewcy.com, Douglas Rushkoff, the subject of some recent posts here, and our friend Rabbi Andy Bachman are duking ...

The Ideas Debate Continues

Steven I Weiss over at Canonist has posted his two cents on Gary Rosenblatt and the “Next Big Jewish Idea” ...

Boston Study

In this week’s Forward, Bethamie Horowitz looks at the recent Boston Community Study that showed that 60% of children in ...

Reading Jimmy Carter

I just started reading Jimmy Carter’s new book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, which has been garnering serious criticism in the ...

The Orthodox Respond

Thanks to Canonist for calling attention to the Orthodox institutions that responded to last week’s decision by (some in) the ...

More Ideas, More Rushkoff

Mobius over at Jewschool has posted a long and thoughtful response to the “Next Big Jewish Idea” question. Rather than ...

An American Problem

The last couple of days we’ve been lamenting the unfortunate state of the “Jewish Idea” — original thoughts, concepts, visions, ...

The Next Great Jewish Band-Aid

Our friend Rabbi Eliyahu Stern over at Beliefnet’s “Virtual Talmud” has weighed in on the odd — if not ridiculous ...

Ozick on Baeck

The New York Times Book Review this weekend featured an essay by novelist Cynthia Ozick about her intellectual adventure from ...

The Next Big Idea

In this week’s Jewish Week, editor Gary Rosenblatt begins his search for, what he calls, “The Next Big Jewish Idea.” ...