Let’s Give Universalism A Rest This Christmas Season
I’m an Orthodox Jew, yet from now until December 26 I will be greeting everyone I encounter who isn’t Jewish with “Merry Christmas.” The War on Christmas is tiresome, although that’s not the reason for...
View ArticleSurrendering To Iran Is Not A ‘Jewish Value,’ Mr. President
President Obama has an ugly habit of goy-splaning Jewish values to Jews in an effort to push his political agenda. Now, if Judaism wasn’t so intimately, and destructively, chained to political...
View ArticleWhy Can’t We Talk About Islam Honestly?
Islam is not a race. Islam is not an ethnicity. Islam is a religion and a political philosophy. And it is distinct from other religions and political philosophies. Pointing this fact out does not make...
View Article6 New Spins On Hanukkah Songs
Unlike Christmas, Hanukkah is a minor holiday. It is an eight-day long celebration of miracles and religious freedom, but in the pantheon of Jewish holidays, Hanukkah simply doesn’t hold a candle (pun...
View ArticleA Good Doctor On Dying A Good Death
When Dr. Oliver Sacks died last August, age 82, obituaries hailed him as America’s great chronicler of medical oddities. He had told those of us whose brains were reasonably well regulated the...
View ArticleWhy Are American Jews So Liberal? Sarah Silverman’s Sister Has Some Answers
What does life look like when an individual is completely driven by choices made through the lens of a progressive worldview? Most who subscribe to it fit a stereotype: single, childless, and proud of...
View ArticleAbortion Is Not A Jewish Value
Reform Judaism has done a fantastic job transforming an ancient monotheistic faith into one that celebrates the sacraments of contemporary liberalism. There is no rite more sacred, or comfortable, in...
View ArticleSince America Won’t Stop Christian Genocide, Israel Should
I own a cassette tape of five-year-old me reciting an Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party chant I learned at school in Baghdad. Roughly translated, it begins: “Ba’athi Ba’athi, this is my manifesto…” This...
View ArticleFor 2016’s Jewish High Holidays, Consider Checking Your Privilege-Checking
Trying to make holidays about everything and anything but what they were meant to be about is such a temptation. When a DC rabbi writes in the Washington Post under the headline “As Jews atone on Yom...
View ArticleUN Claims Jews Have No Significant Ties To Jerusalem
On Wednesday, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee will vote on a resolution that denies the historical ties of the Jewish people to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. As astonishing as the claim is, the...
View Article5 Ways To Combat Anti-Semitism By Raising Your Children Well
It is no secret that in the run-up to the presidential election anti-Semitism reared its ugly head more stridently and viciously than it has in a long time. Since Donald Trump’s election, the press has...
View ArticleYes, The Left’s Anti-Semitism Is More Pronounced Than The Alt-Right’s
Although the fight against anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry must be nonpartisan, my recent attempt to draw attention to left-wing anti-Semitism triggered a depressingly partisan response. I was...
View ArticleEating Brains Shows Reza Aslan Doesn’t Have Any, Or A Chest
When I heard that Muslim scholar Reza Aslan was caught on camera eating human brains with a Hindu cult, as author of a book refuting his best-selling but absurd notions about Jesus, I was tempted to...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Jews And Christians Throw An Israel Celebration Party
The Bible is filled with stories of miracles. But if there’s one major takeaway from the 2017 Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Summit, it’s that miracles still happen in our time, and it’s our job...
View ArticleProminent Group Of Rabbis Won’t Forgive Trump This Day Of Atonement
This high holiday season, which starts the night of Sept. 20, a group of conservative, reform, and reconstructionist rabbis will neither forgive nor forget when it comes to President Trump. The Jewish...
View ArticleWhat’s Inside DC’s New $800 Million, Theme-Park-Influenced Museum Of The Bible
The professor of Jewish studies passes under an ornate archway, leading to another part of the sprawling History of the Bible floor. Keeping up with him isn’t easy, as we dodge workers who continue to...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Tried To Cloak Itself In Religion, And Christians Are...
After decades of abortion advocates demanding religion “stay out of women’s bodies,” Planned Parenthood has now decided religion is a clever way to market their political and moral agenda. In an album...
View ArticleRabbi Meir Soloveichik On Religion, Jewish Ideas, And The American Founders
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik is the Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City, and the director of the Zehava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University....
View ArticleFrancisco De Zurbarán’s Jacob And 12 Sons Are Perfect Viewing For Holy Week...
As Christians celebrate Holy Week and Jews celebrate Passover, an exhibition now at The Frick Collection in New York reflects on some of the most important figures in the history of both religions, as...
View ArticleWhat Israel’s Struggles With Monotheism Say About Our Own Failures
Many Christians have just concluded the season of Lent, that time they fast, pray, and give alms as a means of separating themselves from the things of this world and re-orienting their lives toward...
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