Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky has been a rabbi at Ansche Chesed since 2001.
Jeremy Kalmanofsky
By Jeremy Kalmanofsky
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Opinion It’s our Jewish responsibility to see the full picture when it comes to Israel. We’re failing.
The Jewish state is profoundly flawed, and extraordinary. Why can't we perceive both those truths?
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Opinion How the Middle East Conflict Is Warping Judaism
Sunday will be the 12th of Cheshvan, a grim anniversary: 20 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. He was shot on a Saturday night after the world’s synagogues read the Torah portion Lech Lecha, the first night of the week looking toward the next reading, VaYera, the “binding of Isaac.” But in real life,…
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Opinion Why I Will Not Simply Accept Intermarriage
Over the past two years, influential Conservative rabbis have begun flirting with performing intermarriages and with relaxing conversion standards, or at least wringing their hands at Judaism’s traditional endogamy norm and the distress it is causing interfaith families. Given pervasive intermarriage — 58% of all American Jews marrying since 2000 wed gentiles — it may…
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