Protestors shouldn’t get special dispensation.
Kindness of truth.
After a summer of chaos, wealthy and secular New Yorkers are fleeing in droves. Brooklyn’s Jews aren’t thrilled, but for them leaving isn’t so easy, or so desirable.
How does Israel keep functioning despite constant political turmoil? Meet the opaque group of unelected bureaucrats that the country’s politicians rely on to save it from themselves.
Meanwhile, the coronavirus makes the situation all the more volatile.
Faith is what you struggle with when you do not have the crutch of easy graving.
Sacred cows and sacred spaces.
American civilization seems to be undergoing a cultural crisis. What does this mean for the purpose and prospects of Jewish schools?
Technology is the easy part. Getting young Jews to connect with the Book of Books, that’s hard.
Rabbi Yoḥanan, COVID-19, and the Arab spring.
After the Great Disruption, a new renaissance can emerge, marrying Jewish classical education and novel technology, and confronting the cultural crisis with Jewish exceptionalism.
A crisis of confidence.
Netanyahu is bluffing.
It can’t be expected to keep everybody happy, but it could inspire the public.