Society
I Am Orthodox: Why Labels Matter
A few weeks ago Elad Nehorai of Pop Chassid posted a provocative piece entitled, “Jews, It’s Time To Abolish The ...
Please. Just Stop.
I do not want to write about the horrific deaths of the three Israeli boys. I had other things I ...
Corporations Are Not Religious
The Supreme Court gives corporations Freedom of Religion protection. Absurd. At the close of this season’s Supreme Court rulings, the ...
Requiem for a Suburban Shul
How do you close a synagogue? This is the question I have been confronting for the past few months as ...
Our Girls, the 1 in 5 and the 250
How the United States responds to the kidnapped Nigerian girls and the epidemic of rape on the college campus will ...
Ten Plagues of the 21st Century
“It’s not that I have an issue with her having sex, per se, it’s just that it should mean something. ...
A Dog at the Seder
As a child, the great Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas noticed that dogs appear in Torah at a crucial moment. On ...
The Inhumanity of “Affordable Care”
A few days ago, the distraction of actual governance in Washington was the report on Employment, the economy, and the ...
Airing The Dirty Laundry and Jewish Communal News
As someone who has written articles about issues impacting the Jewish community for publications like The Huffington Post, The Denver ...
Social Justice and Shared Society
It was some 30 years ago that President Reagan signed into law and established a new federal holiday: The Reverend ...