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Rabbi Nevins Reflects
This week on MyJewishLearning, Rabbi Daniel Nevins reflects on his role in the Conservative movement’s recent debate on homosexuality and ...
The Rushkoff-Beery Debate
The Ethics of Our Fathers famously defines an “argument for the sake of heaven” and an “argument not for the ...
Conservative Rabbis Explain Themselves
This week’s Jewish Week has two letters from rabbis on the Conservative movement’s Law Committee, explaining their recent votes on ...
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, ...