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May 16, 2013
10:42 pm

Uncommitted Union: A Response to Ner-David

Let us imagine for a moment a scene in a Jerusalem café: A concerned parent confers with a rabbi, expert in the Jewish laws of Hoshen Mishpat,......

March 5, 2013
11:31 am

On the Road with the Rabbi

My rabbi and dear friend, Rav Menahem Froman, was well known throughout the Jewish homeland, even – and this is quite an accomplishment for a rabbi – to......

March 4, 2013
10:30 pm

Shalom Rabbi Menachem Froman

Tears are rolling down my cheeks as I sob thinking about our time together. For over 20 years Rabbi Menachem Froman was my teacher, my rabbi, my confidant,......

December 16, 2012
2:40 pm

Let Them Cry

Speeches. There will be speeches and ceremonies and candle-lit vigils. There will be outcries and op-eds and pros and cons of gun control. Newtown, Connecticut will host the......

June 18, 2012
11:24 pm

The IDF: Challenged by Feminism?

This morning’s news brought Israeli listeners three items concerning the IDF. The first and most urgent was the terror attack across the Egyptian border in which a civilian......

May 25, 2012
4:10 pm

The Torah of Compulsion : based on an essay by Rav Shagar, of blessed memory, which appears in his book Chance and Providence

The well-known midrash found in the Talmud (b. 88b) describes a rather discomforting aspect of the Giving of the Torah which Jews worldwide will celebrate in two days......

May 11, 2012
7:09 pm

On Turning Fifty

Fifty seems to be something special. It is the number after seven sevens—the culmination of the completion of the greater cycle of the whole. It......

May 3, 2012
1:43 pm

Anglos, angst and aliya

It was 16 years after I moved here, when just after making havdalah the phone rang, breaking the post-Yom Kippur calm. It wasn’t all that unexpected…the second Palestinian......

April 25, 2012
9:26 am

Of victims and heroes

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. ...

April 20, 2012
10:06 am

Guns, bicycles and video tape

Last Saturday’s Jordan Valley bicycle ride, held on April 14th, ended in what should honestly be called a clear victory by the protesters. The film clip of......

April 6, 2012
7:43 am

Matzah as Différance

The sign is usually said to be put in the place of the thing itself. -- Jacques Derrida, Différance Passover, especially the symbolically dense Seder, is, if anything, a......

March 29, 2012
5:06 pm

The Non-Violent March on Jerusalem

My old girlfriend lives just across town. All I did was go and visit. Why does that upset her? I mean, did I even touch her? Try to?......

March 21, 2012
10:35 am

Peter Beinart’s misplaced sense of morality

Peter Beinart can’t read this. It was written in Efrat. In his recent New York Times op-ed, Beinart, preaching for what he calls “Zionist B.D.S.,” joins the long......

March 1, 2012
9:50 am

Religious War

In general, religiously motivated action seems to puzzle much of the secularly-oriented West. A former New York Times reporter on religion felt that a good deal of his......

February 16, 2012
11:26 am

The Humanity of Memory

It's happening again. And it seems that there is nothing that I can do to stop it. Each breath comes with more difficulty, my eyes grow heavy with......