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This past Shabbat, Rabbi Aryeh Perlstein, Assistant Rabbi of our shul, Young Israel of North Beverly Hills, gave a speech that concluded with a remarkable story.
Its title: “If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem.”
A familiar line, yet the story…

A culture of casual contempt is eroding Jewish life.

In one of my favorite comedy bits, Modi Rosenfeld contrasts how Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews speak about their rabbis. The Sephardi character…

A gentile’s moral dilemma before introducing a Jewish comedy
Tags: Sweden antisemitism, Jewish life in Europe, October 7 impact, media bias, moral clarity.

In a few days, I’ll step up to…

State-sanctioned discrimination and division thrive: at the Western Wall, women’s prayer space shrinks; on buses, segregation enforces second-class status; public singing by women draws rebuke (never busk on Ben Yehudah, you have been…

Critics sometimes argue that Black Christian abolitionist voices were not “real theologians” because they did not produce systematic treatises, commentaries, or dogmatics like their white counterparts. At best, so the argument goes, they…