The Wall is Wailing
The Kotel is a holy place, and should not be made a battlefield by advocates for social or religious change.
Category: Religion
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.
Every Son Needs a “Father”
Yehudah begins his plea to Yosef to spare Binyamin, “My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father …?” Yet Yosef never asked the question in precisely that fashion. Everyone has a father....
Selective History
Neither Christianity nor Islam, after all, even existed when the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem functioned for centuries as the focal point of the Jewish people.
The Sound of Silence
acting dishonestly in order to “supplement” our income denies G-d’s ability to provide us our sustenance
The Right to Disrupt Your Prayers
Nofrat Frenkel made the news two weeks ago — by getting herself arrested. In violation of an Israeli court order, she took out a Torah scroll in the area of the Western Wall consecrated...
The Roars of Crowds
I’ve never experienced a pogrom or been pursued by an angry mob, thank G-d. And yet my genes seem to hold some residue – bequeathed in some Lamarckian way by less fortunate forebears –...
Who Is A Briton?
How the Court squares itsjudgment of Jewish law as racially discriminatory with the fact that the very same law grants full Jewish status to anyone who accepts Jewish observance and undergoes conversion – regardless of color, national origin or ethnicity – is not known.
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