Conversion
A Jewish intellectual who bucked the general wisdom.
On Peter Berger and the Jews.
Halakhic rulings from the diaspora may not always apply well to Israeli realities.
“The most systematic, comprehensive commentary on Maimonides’ code ever produced.”
Abraham Carmel.
Leaving the fold.
Furious and extreme proposals in response to two Israeli government decisions are ill-reasoned and immature.
A much greater problem for Israel, and for American Jewry, than the Western Wall controversy.
Amram Blau and his proselyte widow.
Putting an odd anecdote in context.
For them, religion was about more than the individual.
Now used to describe converts to Judaism, the term misleadingly suggests that Jewishness inheres more in certain selective beliefs than in Jewish peoplehood.
Meet Rabbi Gershom Sizomu.
The kidnapping of Yossele Schumacher, revisited.