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Religion in the Public Square

Rabbi Debra Landsberg has posted a thoughtful reply to a comment I posted on her blog about a comment she ...

Karaites Revisited

Back in November, I blogged about the Karaite representation at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly.I wrote:But perhaps most fascinating ...

Anti-Semitic Liturgy

In light of Eli Stern’s op-ed about interfaith dialogue that I blogged about yesterday, this news story about Orthodox Christians ...

Klinghoffer Watch

Thanks to LastTrumpet over at Jewschool for weighing in with a critique of David Klinghoffer’s latest Forward op-ed. It’s hard ...

Fundamentalist Relativism

In this week’s Jewish Week, Rabbi Eliyahu Stern addresses an issue I raised a few weeks ago in reference to ...

Israeli Certainty

According to a new poll, 85% of Israelis believe in God, while 12% are atheists. The interesting part of the ...

Meir Soloveichik on Interfaith Dialogue

This month’s issue of Commentary includes a lengthy essay by Meir Soloveichik, in which he rejects theological interfaith dialogue. Soloveichik ...

The Segulah Trap

Feeling superstitious? Recently The Jewish Week took a look at segulot, Jewish good luck charms. Turns out that they’re not so Jewish after ...

The Private Heschel

Susannnah Heschel has a wonderful article in the Jewish Week about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, in which she writes ...

Jewish Women in Focus

Celebrating women's history, one month at a time.

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: ...

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