“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. ...
HUMANIST The legendary civil rights activist Bayard Rustin summed up the kind of prophecy we need today when he said,
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American society tries to sell us the idea that Christmas is not a religious holiday because its themes—gift giving, goodwill and peace on earth—are universal. But Christmas is fundamentally religious: It celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the Christian messiah ...
"Way back when I was a normal yeshiva boy playing rabbi, I thought I was right about gay men not really being gay and that they should stop this nonsense and get right with Torah and find a nice Jewish girl. Until one day." ...
Artificial intelligence has been around ever since we plucked the fruit off the branch of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and came away with clarity around neither. ...
These 75 years of the existence of the State of Israel do not just resolve 2,000 years of exile but bring to a climax 3,000 years of Jewish history. ...