Caleb’s Gift
A Philadelphia law enforcement official soberly informed television viewers how the “devices” worn by Mr. Leibowitz were called “olfactories.”
Category: Religion
Egged and the Wheels of Justice
29bShvat 5770 Laughter broke the tense atmosphere of the Israel Supreme Court session on Thursday Feb.4 (20bShvat) when both sides, those in favor of gender-separated seating on Mehadrin buses and those against, reacted with...
The Myth of Mundanity
An abrupt shift takes place in all the world’s synagogues around this time of year. Over the previous 17 weeks, since the public reading of the Torah was begun anew after the holiday of...
Haiti and the Mind of G-d
I am not able to worship a G-d Whose ways are all crystal clear to me – attributed to the Kotzker Rebbe (1787-1859) The ways of G-d are hidden and mysterious; they have never...
The Earth Trembles
To any early 20th century Polish Jew, Japan could as well have been Neptune. The distance between the shtetl and the Far East was measurable not merely in physical miles but in cultural and...
The Problem
Objective observers of the Middle East, though, should think long and hard about what happened in the wake of the mosque burning, and in the wake of Rabbi Chai’s murder.
The Wall is Wailing
The Kotel is a holy place, and should not be made a battlefield by advocates for social or religious change.
Defining Death Down
The shortage of organs for transplantation – is pushing some physicians to call a life a life, even if it hasn’t yet been fully lived.
Stairway To Peoplehood
It is thus much more than a comparison; it is an identification. Jacob is the Jewish people; and that is why he is deathless.
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