Ask the Rabbis / Religion & Politics
Are there times when a rabbi must express his or her political opinion from the pulpit, even if it is likely to spark controversy?
The Gospel of Amy-Jill Levine
The Life and times of a Jewish New Testament Scholar // Rewind to the summer of 1963: Future New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine was watching the broadcast of Pope John XXIII’s funeral on her parents’ TV set.
The Last Synagogue Standing
Jewish life in Detroit isn’t dead. In fact, it’s having a hipster rebirth // We’re across the street from a strip club called Cobras advertising something called “The Grind Downtown,” and we’re dancing with the Torah. Through downtown Detroit, a group of 100 or so is parading down the sidewalks of Griswold Street and Grand River Avenue, hoisting the scrolls and chanting Hebrew songs in honor of Simchat Torah.
Opinion: One State? Only on Twitter!
“Techno-utopianism” promotes the misconception that a shared state is possible. // By Gershom Gorenberg
The Catholic Conversion in Teaching on Jews
Sometime in my mid-teens, I asked to join the CYO basketball team at the parish church in my New Jersey hometown. For the uninitiated, CYO stands for Catholic Youth Organization, and it was the group to which my two best friends belonged. Jimmy Lyons lived across the street from me, and Tim Mulligan was his buddy from parochial school. Needless to say, I was Jewish.
Interview: Richard Saul Wurman
The restless architect and designer who dreamed up TED hasn’t stopped inventing new ways of organizing information in search of what he calls “the God of understanding.”
Pilgrimage to Uman
Almost 200 years after Rebbe Nachman’s death, his followers flock to a once-closed Soviet town to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
by Nadine Epstein
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Ask the Rabbis: What’s the Best Way to Ask for Forgiveness?
The first step is to admit to ourselves that we did something wrong.
The Dead Sea’s Revenge
The story of how humans are killing the Dead Sea—and how only international cooperation may save it.