Matthew Schultz
By Matthew Schultz
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Opinion Stop saying Trump divided Jews. He revealed our diversity.
It’s official: Donald Trump has divided Jews. At least, that’s what you might think if you’ve read the news at all recently. According to Haaretz, “Donald Trump Has Split the Jewish People, Perhaps Forever.” The Jerusalem Post agrees: “Israelis are from Venus, U.S. Jews are from Mars.” Not to be outdone, we were assured in…
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Opinion The dam is breaking for LGBT acceptance in the Orthodox world
A few days ago, I saw a headline that read: “This Orthodox Jewish rabbi just performed his first-ever ‘joyous’ same-sex wedding.” As a gay Jew, this piqued my interest, but for the rest of the world, it seemed that this news went over with a yawn. It was covered dryly by the Times of Israel,…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders’ Alliance With Linda Sarsour Is An Insult To Jews
I narrowed my eyes back in September when Bernie Sanders announced that activist Linda Sarsour would be his campaign surrogate. Hadn’t she said all manner of terrible things about Israel and the Jews who support it? “I would be so proud to win, but also to make history and elect the first Jewish American president…
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Opinion Conversion Therapy Is Awful. But So Is Treating Being Gay As An Incurable Disease.
Is a person’s sexual orientation immutable, predetermined, biological, and unchangeable? Or is it suppressible, environmental, sociological, and fluid? Today’s Orthodox Jews are of two minds on the issue. If you ask Netanyahu’s Education Minister Rafi Peretz, he will tell you that the latter is the case. He will say that Conversion Therapy works, and that…
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Life We Talk About The Four Sons Of Passover — But What About The Four Fathers?
Annie Noonan was the savviest sixth-grader in my class. She lit incense and smoked cigarettes. Her home was lightly supervised. She was the first of my friends to make my parents uncomfortable, which made her all the more fascinating. And most exciting of all, she was a witch. Apparently, this was something a person could…
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