Fighting Fire With Water
Our Jewish danger-sensors must be turned on always, but our Jewish brains no less.
Author: Avi Shafran
A Note to Readers
Dear Cross-Currents Reader, In lieu of offering an essay this Friday, I’d like to take the opportunity now to let you know about some changes that will be taking place in the origin and...
Punishing People for Their Beliefs
Merely “brain-dead” human beings, in the judgment of major halachic decisors, are still alive.
Bias Buzzing in the Background
The Williams debacle was only a particularly clear manifestation of one of the biases that buzz incessantly in the air of NPR’s studios.
We’re All Rescued Miners
The regularity with which we are granted new life each day dulls us, regrettably, to the indescribable import of the fact.
A Great, Tragic Divide
There is a rather large difference, it shouldn’t need to be said, between censorship and standards.
Valuing Values
With the summer came yet another judicial salvo aimed at the idea that certain values rooted in religious tradition are rightfully reflected in secular law.
Dispatching the Goat
Sin stems from insufficient recognition of how meaningful in fact are our lives.
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