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Conservative Rabbis Explain Themselves

This week’s Jewish Week has two letters from rabbis on the Conservative movement’s Law Committee, explaining their recent votes on ...

An insider's view of the 2006 CJLS gay vote.

In discussing the “Next Big Jewish Idea” question, I cited Douglas Rushkoff’s writing on business innovation and noted his book ...

Over at Jewcy.com, Douglas Rushkoff, the subject of some recent posts here, and our friend Rabbi Andy Bachman are duking ...

Steven I Weiss over at Canonist has posted his two cents on Gary Rosenblatt and the “Next Big Jewish Idea” ...

In this week’s Forward, Bethamie Horowitz looks at the recent Boston Community Study that showed that 60% of children in ...

I just started reading Jimmy Carter’s new book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, which has been garnering serious criticism in the ...

Thanks to Canonist for calling attention to the Orthodox institutions that responded to last week’s decision by (some in) the ...

Mobius over at Jewschool has posted a long and thoughtful response to the “Next Big Jewish Idea” question. Rather than ...

The last couple of days we’ve been lamenting the unfortunate state of the “Jewish Idea” — original thoughts, concepts, visions, ...

Our friend Rabbi Eliyahu Stern over at Beliefnet’s “Virtual Talmud” has weighed in on the odd — if not ridiculous ...

The New York Times Book Review this weekend featured an essay by novelist Cynthia Ozick about her intellectual adventure from ...