Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin is the co-founder/co-director of Wisdom Without Walls: an online salon for Jewish ideas. He is the author of the recently published Inviting God In: A Guide to Jewish Prayer (CCAR Press).
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin
By Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin
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Opinion An arsonist torched a Mississippi synagogue. It feels hauntingly familiar.
The fire at Beth Israel echoes a long history of synagogue attacks, including the 1958 bombing of The Temple in Atlanta
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Opinion ‘Jesus is a Palestinian,’ claims a Times Square billboard. Um, not quite.
A new billboard in Times Square is misguided in dangerous ways
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Opinion When Zionism was maligned at the UN, he fought for truth — what would he say today?
Fifty years ago, one speech countered the onset of pernicious lies about Israel
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Opinion Don’t compare Trump’s US to Nazi Germany. These 3 American moments are more apt.
There is a straight line from Sen. Joseph McCarthy to President Donald Trump
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Opinion Displaying baby Jesus in a kaffiyeh is antisemitic
Manger displays depicting Jesus as Palestinian — including the Vatican's — erase Jewish history in the Holy Land
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Oct. 7: One Year Later Years before Oct. 7, Leonard Cohen wrote a song that anticipated its darkness
A close-reading of Cohen's 'You Want It Darker' in a post-Oct. 7 world
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Culture Can there be poetry after Oct. 7? A new collection shows how
An anthology, called 'Shiva,' feels like an extension of the biblical scroll Lamentations
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Community The silence from my Christian colleagues is deafening
In a famous Hasidic story, a rabbi asks his disciple: “Do you love me?” To which the disciple replies: “Of course I love you!” The rabbi continues. “Do you know what causes me pain?” he asks. “Rabbi, how can I know what causes you pain?” To which the rabbi responds: “If you do not know…
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