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This week, the world lost Bob Weir, the rhythm guitarist and co-leader of the Grateful Dead.

Jerry Garcia died in 1995, when I was just seven years old, so for me, Weir was the face of the Grateful Dead. I first saw him perform live at the…

One of the most common questions I get asked about Jewish campus life centres on antisemitism: Is it getting better?  Whether based in hope that it is, the slightly fewer examples of campus-based Jew hatred in our Instagram feeds, or the…

Leaders of Tulsa’s Jewish community are publicly pushing back against a proposal to open a publicly funded Jewish charter school in Oklahoma, saying the plan was developed without meaningful local input and could…

The governing coalition’s attempt to undermine the professional independence of Israel’s justice system has now reached a place where its impact could be life or death: the IDF.

Earlier this week, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation…

Rabbeinu Gershom was born in Metz, northeast France, in 960. If he were transported to Metz 500 years later, little would likely have changed. Metz in 1460 would be pretty much the same. Same language, similar culture, same persecution, and…

The Atra study on the rabbinic pipeline asked two key questions about the metrics of the rabbinate: Are fewer people choosing the rabbinate, and are rabbis leaving the congregational rabbinate, and if so, why? Many people have weighed in on…

I recently addressed the Israeli Left with a message that provoked strong reactions. Some felt attacked. Others felt misunderstood. So let me clarify the intent, the context, and the principle behind it.

Over the past two years, I have…

Moshe had a speech impediment. He was very self-conscious about it. From the very beginning, in last week’s parashah, when God chose him as His messenger, he remonstrated with God, arguing that he would not be a good prophet as he was not a…

Iran is witnessing its largest wave of protests since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Yet beyond their scale, it’s the language featured by protestors that truly breaks new ground.

For an Iranian nation steeped in poetic tradition – think…