Which verse would the President quote?
President Trump used the Bible for a photo op — but he never opened it. If he had, which verse might he have used to heal our country?
‘What she lacked was the goodness of possibility:’ Parallels with Ruth in a pandemic
The redemptive arc of Ruth is not linear, but rather comes by way of individual acts of goodness.
The new Chancellor of JTS will take up a mantle of both tradition and innovation
We need a Chancellor willing to boldly renew Jewish tradition even as the nature of community and identity formation is changing.
Graduations, camp and more is canceled. ‘What can we say that does not risk pablum or platitudes?’
Far easier than knowing what to say is to begin with what not to say — how not to respond.
‘In all of the pain I am reminded why I became a rabbi in the first place’
Until this month, I have never recited vidui — the death-bed prayer — to a person over the phone, and I hope never to do so ever again.
The Powerful Yom Kippur Lesson From The 1919 ‘Black Sox’ Scandal
This year is the 100th anniversary of baseball’s original sin.
The Center Cannot Hold
Ours is an era when the unthinkable has become thinkable again.
When American Jews Talk About Israel, We’re Really Talking About Ourselves.
Why do American Jews talk about Israel so much? Because it is easier than turning the lens on the endangered condition of our Judaism.
Tradition and (50 Years of) Change
Few books have an iconic status specifically for Conservative Jews, but it is fair to say that “Tradition and Change: The Development of Conservative Judaism” is one of them. This year marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of this landmark volume of essays on movement ideology, edited by the late Rabbi Mordecai Waxman. For a half-century, it has served as a veritable reference manual — the *vade mecum — *for anyone interested in the intellectual roots of Conservative Judaism and its institutional arms. Today, “Tradition and Change” continues to illuminate Conservative Judaism’s rich past, but it also offers valuable insights for a movement that has been struggling with uncertainty about its future.
Where Have All the Theologians Gone?
Name five contemporary Jewish theologians saying something interesting about Jewish belief who had not already published a major work by 1990. Stumped? So am I.