Quite Unconventional
When you attend a convention over Shabbos and several days later you still feel your neshama tingling, you know that what you experienced was rather . . . unconventional. That captures the experience my...
Category: Jewish World
Rapper’s Sabbath
Despite having eclectic tastes in many things, I have no appreciation of urban music. And so I had never heard of Q-Tip (the person, that is; the object is familiar to me). He is...
Celebrating Submission
The Jewish people at Mount Sinai created its eternal bond with the Creator by accepting His gift of gifts to them.
Of Cartoons and Coldhearted Cowardice – Part 2
Of all the Forward has done to bully those from whom it has no fear of a fatwa, nothing compares with what it has written editorially in the wake of Sholom Rubashkin’s conviction, as...
We are Lubavitchers… and Janet Reno is Charedi
The Forward this week has a story about the effort to secure just treatment for Sholom Rubashkin, regarding whom prosecutors have asked for a 25-year sentence, down from their earlier request for a life...
A Ray of Light in a Lion’s Den
“Boy, you’re brave,” said the first fellow to approach me at the table after the symposium. The panel discussion, on Sunday, April 25, was the second time in as many months that I had...
Of Cartoons and Coldhearted Cowardice – Part 1
This week, the New York Times’ token center-right columnist, Ross Douthat, had an important piece on the contradictory notions of censorship in contemporary society. Reading it through Jewish lenses, though, one can see its...
Preaching to a Very Mixed Choir
What do you tell a gathering of clerics, when they give you about a minute, and others can be expected to offer some PC drivel? Speaking at the World Summit Of Religious Leaders Forum...
Two on Rubashkin
I was sent the article, “Is A Life Sentence for Iowa Kosher Butcher Disproportionate Justice?” Not knowing much about “The Cutting Edge News,” a few clicks led to “Rubashkin Sentence Must Be Fair—Not Shocking,”...
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