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Should Jews Sell Guns?
Selling the tools of violence to people prone to violence violates the biblical prohibition of "setting a stumbling block before the blind."
Birth, Brit Milah, Live, Newborn Ceremonies
Contemporary Issues in Baby Ceremonies
Circumcision debates and intermarriage
The Casket, or Aron
The rabbis mandated a simple wooden coffin to equalize people in death and to enable the return to dust.
Jewish Texts, Rabbis Without Borders, Study
Is Schadenfreude a Jewish Value?
My one-week vacation in the United States was a breath of fresh air. A whole week of conversations with family, ...
Denominations, Live, Rabbis Without Borders
Us and Them: We are the Same
Recently a Freshman at Harvard wrote about his first experience at the Harvard Hillel in a op ed to The ...
This Old Freedom Train
In this country, and perhaps at this season of Hanukkah especially, we celebrate our Freedom of Religion. We also celebrate ...
Typhoon Haiyan and the Importance of Giving
“Shall we make Man in our image?” A favorite rabbinic comment of mine reads Genesis 1:25 as a questions rather ...
An Afro-Ashkefardi Recipe For Rosh Hashanah
From black-eyed pea hummus spiked with homemade horseradish harissa to matzoh-meal fried chicken cooked in shmaltz, to peach noodle kugels ...