I hope we’re learning that constantly portraying our community as age-old victims of antisemitism is not helpful. Being marginalized, scapegoated and demonized is not that different from what other “out” groups experience. ...
Values are meaningless when we treat them like commodities to be gambled with on the stock market of political correctness. ...
Jewish law—and lore—reflects many attitudes. ...
In 2075, people will have learned to live together, to respect each other despite differences in opinion, religion and ethnicity. ...
In 1975, our doors were open, and we were not suspicious of strangers. ...
“There is barely a mitzvah more urgent than the redemption of captives.” ...
Where a path exists to preserve innocent life without compromising necessary military objectives, Jewish tradition urges us to take it. ...
“The idea that people should own up to the finality of death is one that rejects the eternity of the soul.” ...
“If G-d wanted to be a strongman, you would expect Him to make His presence ubiquitous,” writes Rabbi Tzvi Freedman. “Yet his PR claims He doesn’t even have a face that we can see.” ...
We should learn from our sages. ...
"To answer this question, we have to ask first what makes one a Jew." ...
The prophet Elijah is in a deep depression. ...