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Very early this morning I found myself in a kind of half-wakeful, half slow-moving liminal dream. The sun hadn’t risen yet. I felt something opaque, something solid hovering above me. A wall of lead? A rubber barrier of some kind with a…

Literally, the Torah forbids Straight men situational homosexuality

For those open to rethinking interpretations since the Sixties, I combined traditional Orthodox Judaism and my own research to suggest that Leviticus 18:22 is aimed at

Despite one of his most moving and important speeches during the United Nations General Assembly the other day, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s appearance will be promoted by his opponents with pictures of former allies walking out in…

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The “As-a-Jew” phenomenon isn’t new; only the name is. For millennia, some members of the Jewish peoplehood have helped to fuel movements that seek to slaughter us. Every Hanukkah, we celebrate victory against them.

As empires try to…

It is abundantly clear that the halakhic view places great import on influencing the individual’s interaction with others in society. The relationship of man to his fellow stands as a formidable component of any Jew’s spiritual record, an…

Everyday life is experienced linearly; physics suggests that it is relative, but Judaism always focuses on the cyclical. We place a strong emphasis on the circle of life, and it is through that lens that we tend to view history. We have…

On October 7, Hamas massacred more than a thousand Israelis and burned homes to the ground. Now Washington has a 21-point plan to end the war and rebuild Gaza. What it does not do is commit funds to rebuild the Israeli towns that were…

Throughout the year, we don’t see the seriousness we observe in people during the High Holy Days. There is an awakening in the heart that makes even the jokester act properly when the Aron Kodesh is opened at Unesaneh Tokef. The obvious…

From the peaks of moral truth to the depths of a nation standing alone; from the blazing flames of righteous pathos to the mass walkout that testified to a loss of direction: The forty minutes of Netanyahu’s speech at the UN podium last…