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Chutzpah Alert
Ynet News recently reported the following story about Rabbi Avraham Yosef: During a radio show on which he replies to ...
Debating Peoplehood
Over at Jewcy, editor Joey Kurtzman and JTS provost Jack Wertheimer recently concluded a heated debate about the state of ...
The Future (or Death) of Theology
The other day, Meredith blogged about Elliot Cosgrove’s Forward op-ed about the unfortunate decline of Jewish theology. But I’d like ...
Where Have All the Theologians Gone?
The week The Forward has an op-ed from Elliot Cosgrove, a young, dynamic rabbi out of Chicago, asking “Where Have ...
Are you Jewish?
So while sitting at the offices of MyJewishLearning, we heard a knock on the door. Low and behold it was ...
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 ...