Eliyahu Federman
ARTICLES BY: Eliyahu Federman
Brooklyn DA Trumped-Up Hate Crime Charges
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has come under scrutiny for his alleged mishandling of sexual abuse cases in the Orthodox Jewish community. He should...
Jewish-Orthodox Sexual Abuse Cases and Ultra-Media Bias
Sexual abuse is not unique to any specific community. Secrecy, shame, stigma and fear pervade all sectors of society, including secular college campuses,...
Psychic Faith Healers Belie Jewish Tradition
The practice of "faith healing" carries obvious dangers, such as discouraging those who need conventional medical help from seeking it. When the "healer"...
The Atheist Passover Seder With Christopher Hitchens
It may surprise you to hear that foremost atheist and anti-theist Christopher Hitchens made a seder and even required his daughter to attend. In a...
Forced Marriages are Against Jewish Law
Deborah Feldman, author of Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, and model mom, Pearl Perry Reich, have recently made national headlines with their stories of...
Organ Donation: Jews Can Learn Something From Atheists
Recently while renewing my driver's license, the DMV attendant looked surprised when I requested organ donor designation. She remarked how she thought being...
Hipsters and Hasids: The Clash of Cultures In Crown Heights
On January 26 a blazing headline in the New York Daily News read: "It's religious Jews vs fashionable hipsters in Crown Heights." The article...
An Open Letter on the ‘Kosher Jesus’ Tussle
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and his new book 'Kosher Jesus' recently came under attack by Chicago Rabbi Yitzchok Wolf. Rabbi Wolf called for Rabbi...
Violence to Preserve Judaism, or Diversity of Opinion?
Various non-mainstream Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) communities in Israel and in the U.S. are clashing with western values embraced by less religious Jews. Daily reports...
Hannukah at a Hockey Rink
The Coyotes vs Panthers hockey game last Tuesday was no ordinary game. Chabad of Florida performed a menorah-lighting ceremony on the ice during the...
Gays and Bearded Rabbis In the Military
The military Chaplain Accession Board found Rabbi Menachem Stern fully qualified to serve, but then rescinded a formal letter of acceptance because he refused to...
Crown Heights Cracking Down on Sexual Abuse
In the past four months the Crown Heights Jewish Community has seen as many sexual abuse-related arrests and reports as there have been in...
Rubashkin; Obama’s Double Standard
President Barack Obama had no reservations attempting to block the execution of Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican man that was convicted in 1994 of...
