David Weitzner
Judaism is familiar with Great Pauses — but this one is different
Shabbos is every seven days. Shmita is a bigger pause every seven years. And Yovel, the Jubilee year, comes after seven seven-year cycles.
How Art Can Bridge Divides Between Jewish And Black Communities
Art can connect different people — and overcome prejudice — in ways that cold, calculating arguments cannot.
Why I Made The Heartwrenching Decision To Pull My Son Out Of Yeshiva
For my son’s sake and the sake of all Jewish children, we desperately need a new definition of what constitutes a quality Jewish education.
Turning the Kotel Into a Haredi Synagogue Is Bad for Men, Too
Now that there will be a secondary space to which one can banish the Kotel’s undesirables, will others be shunted away — including certain men?
It’s Time to Embrace a Post-Modern Approach to Orthodoxy
Rabbi Mordechai Willig derisively writes that an evolving viewpoint on the place for women and gays in Jewish life are manifestations of post-modernism. David Weitzner explains why in actuality these views are the authentic Judaism.