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).
Jeffrey K. Salkin
By Jeffrey K. Salkin
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Opinion The Seas Are Rising — and That’s a Jewish Problem
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. A (now disgraced) comedian once did a routine about Noah, who was incredulous about God warning him about the coming flood. Finally, famously, God asks Moses: “Noah, how long can you tread water?” I have been thinking about that question…
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Opinion Want a Jewish Response to San Bernardino Mass Shooting? Scream Bloody Murder.
This time, it was at a social services center for the disabled, in San Bernadino, California. Two people went on a shooting spree. They killed at least 14 people, and they wounded 17 others, before they were killed as well. Earlier the same day, there had been a shooting in Houston. Not to mention a…
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Opinion How American Jews Can Fight the Academic Intifada
As the New York Times reported this weekend, Israel is under attack. Except, this time, the tools of attack are not military. They are not rockets fired on Sderot from Gaza, or Hezbollah-sponsored salvos from Lebanon. The attacks are not even located in Israel itself. They are attacks on the very idea of Israel, and…
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Opinion ‘The Nu Republic’ No More
How do you say kaddish for a magazine that lived to be 100 years old? Because that is precisely what many fans of The New Republic are doing, as well as engaging in the more of-this-world-ly act of cancelling their subscriptions. By now, everyone in the literary world and blogosphere is aware of what has…
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Opinion Our ‘Car Talk’ Rebbe in God’s Auto Repair Shop
“Car Talk” hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi It’s a stereotype, but Jewish men have an ancient and mostly well-earned reputation for not being able to fix things. (There have been many notable exceptions to this, including my father, who could fix anything). I have done my best to uphold this proud tradition of our people….
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Life Bringing Malala Into Bat Mitzvah Ceremony
You would have to have a heart encrusted with cynicism to not be moved by Malala Yousafzai. It is, in many ways, a modern miracle. An activist for equal education for young girls in her native Pakistan, Malala survived a Taliban bullet and expanded her local quest into an international movement for women’s education in…
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Opinion My Search for the Perfect Biblical Blue
A few of the author’s many blue inks on paper. / Jeffrey K. Salkin It’s time for me to confess my hobby. I collect and use fountain pens. I have no memory of how I first got into this particular way of writing. No, it has nothing to do with the fabled “Today I am…
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Opinion What an iPhone Feud Says About the Ancient Fight for Jerusalem
In the story of Cain and Abel, it says: “And Cain said to Abel his brother…” (Genesis 4:8) But what did Cain say? There is nothing in the text about what he said to his brother. The ancient rabbis imagined an entire conversation between the brothers. And what was the conversation about? One ancient sage…
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