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Renewal Rabbis

This just in from JTA: Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder and leader of Jewish Renewal, ordained two rabbis, two rabbinic pastors ...

The New York Times last week had an interesting article on free will and the current scientific debate about whether ...

In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I re-examine Norman Podhoretz’s Making It, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary ...

A survey of recent American and International Jewish cinema.

Creating positive educational experiences for your family.

At some point I got signed up for a “Daily Halacha” email by a Rabbi Eli Mansour. Usually, I’m most ...

Four stories that mattered--and three that might have.

Ira Rifkin has an interesting article in this week’s Jewish Week about the Tiferet Institute’s recent conference on Kabbalah for ...

On the Daily Shvitz yesterday, Elisa Albert referred to an amazing article from the New York Times last month about ...

I only just stumbled upon Terry Eagleton’s review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion in the London Review of Books ...

This week on MyJewishLearning, Rabbi Daniel Nevins reflects on his role in the Conservative movement’s recent debate on homosexuality and ...

The Ethics of Our Fathers famously defines an “argument for the sake of heaven” and an “argument not for the ...