Beliefs and concepts
Profits and Prophets
There are few more blazing passages in the whole of religious literature than the first chapter of the book of Isaiah, the great...
Swiss Hospitals Follow German Ban on Circumcision
Two hospitals in Switzerland have suspended the practice of non-medical circumcision within their walls. The move comes just weeks after a German court in Cologne ruled that parents cannot order circumcisions on their children because...
Attack in Bulgaria
What Israel Can Do For You and What You Can Do For Israel We ask not what will be? But what can we do about it? - The Rebbe In Honor and in Memory of...
What Bulgaria Terror Victims and Their Families are Going Through
Jacob Kimchy, profiled recently by The Algemeiner created One Heart in 2006, a non-profit organization that provides psychological and emotional support to child victims of terror and trauma. Kimchy's father Rami Kimchy, was killed in a...
The Prophetic Voice
During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b'Av, as we recall the destruction...
Sephardic Rabbi Endorses Concubine Scenario Under Jewish Law
A Sephardic Rabbi in Israel has ruled that the taking of a concubine is an act...
Fifty Shades of…
I was thinking of writing a bestselling novel called Fifty Shades of Black about a...
Jewish Organizations, Others Must Stop Interfering With Holocaust Survivors’ Rights
The JTA recently published an op-ed by Menachem Rosensaft which gratuitously offers an "alternative" to...
Profits and Prophets
There are few more blazing passages in the whole of religious literature than the first chapter of the book of Isaiah, the great "vision," chazon,...
Swiss Hospitals Follow German Ban on Circumcision
Two hospitals in Switzerland have suspended the practice of non-medical circumcision within their walls. The move comes just weeks after a German court in Cologne...
Attack in Bulgaria
What Israel Can Do For You and What You Can Do For Israel We ask not what will be? But what can we do about...
What Bulgaria Terror Victims and Their Families are Going Through
Jacob Kimchy, profiled recently by The Algemeiner created One Heart in 2006, a non-profit organization that provides psychological and emotional support to child victims of terror...
The Prophetic Voice
During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b'Av, as we recall the destruction of the Temples, we read three of the most searing...
Sephardic Rabbi Endorses Concubine Scenario Under Jewish Law
A Sephardic Rabbi in Israel has ruled that the taking of a concubine is an act that in certain instances is permissible by halacha, the code...
Fifty Shades of…
I was thinking of writing a bestselling novel called Fifty Shades of Black about a young Hasidic man in Williamsburg who decides to buy a...
Higgs Boson and God
In 1964 the physicist Peter Higgs suggested that there had to be a crucial particle (a boson) that helped explain how matter could emerge...
Jewish Organizations, Others Must Stop Interfering With Holocaust Survivors’ Rights
The JTA recently published an op-ed by Menachem Rosensaft which gratuitously offers an "alternative" to the legislation that Holocaust survivors and children and grandchildren of...
Israel: Not Reckoned Among the Nations
The year is 1933. Two Jews are sitting in a Viennese coffee house, reading the news. One is reading the local Jewish paper, the other...
Staying Calm in the Supermarket: If Israelis Can, So Can You
So what was I doing behind six shopping carts at the local Shufersal Deal supermarket in MishorAdumim on a Friday morning? After all, as far...
Dogs in Judaism: Guards, Demons, or Companions?
On October 4, a feast day in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, you may find a procession of animals heading for the ...
Embracing the Catholic Church’s Fight for Religious Freedom
One of the most heartening stories of interfaith relations in the last half century has been the way the Catholic Church changed the...
What the 2012 Gay Pride Parade and Israel Parade Had in Common
Summertime in Manhattan brings many things: street festivals, open hydrants, crime, Con-Ed outages, Jews for Jesus and parades. Earlier in June, I marched in the Israel...
