Jewish Texts
It’s Not Over Until …
It’s not over until… When the Simpsons go to see Carmen at the Springfield Opera House Homer asked Bart when ...
Mr. Prime Minister, Tear Down This Wall!
In June 1975, I was getting ready to leave Israel after a year of study. I bumped into a friend ...
Politics and the Pulpit
This past Sunday was claimed by many churches around the country ‘Pulpit Freedom Sunday’. It’s the day that the pastors ...
Genesis and Human Stewardship of the Earth
As humans and Jews we have a responsibility to take care of the earth.
Give Me Some of that Old Time Blasphemy
There is much discussion currently about imposing limits on blasphemy. It seems clear that the vast majority of those in ...
Do You Remember Me?
One of the things that sometimes is embarrassing and/or sometimes frustrating, is when someone comes up to me and says: ...
How Deep Are Our Thoughts?
For our first anniversary, my wife and I went on a trip through the Southwest, seeing Sedona, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, ...
Hanging in the Air
Numbers 30. 2. And Moses spoke to the chiefs of the tribes concerning the people of Israel, saying, This is ...
Women’s Voices: The Path to Religious Freedom
Is it kosher to listen to Neshama Carlebach in concert? Go to an opera where women are singing solos? Enjoy ...
The Future of the Past
In a recent Commentary article, Jack Wertheimer once again takes on the trends in American Jewry – individualism, pluralism, universalism, anti-tribalism, ...
JP Morgan, a Prostitute, and the Talmud
…And to be clear, in the following analogy, Chase is the prostitute. At a time when two-income families struggle to ...
There Are Places I Remember…..
An Orthodox rabbinic colleague Rabbi Zev Farber recently posted on Morethodoxy a piece on the experience of place women have ...