David Jaffe

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Apr 12, 2018, 10:40 AM

Yom HaShoah with a Near Normal Man

Last summer’s wave of white supremacist marches threatened to even reach the liberal stronghold of Berkeley, CA. Jewish leaders cautioned the community not to overreact and confront the neo-Nazis. Indeed, they instructed them to stay home and let the...

May 23, 2017, 11:09 PM

Yom Yerushalayim – It’s Complex, So Celebrate

As a Liberal Zionist, I love Yom Yerushalayim and I am deeply disturbed by Yom Yerushalayim. I love that, for the first time in 2,000 years, my Jewish people has sovereignty over our holiest site, the Temple Mount, and...

May 3, 2017, 6:31 AM

How I confronted my inner Satmar on Yom Ha’atzma’ut and gained a new understanding about young progressive Jews who turn away from Israel

Satmar rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum (screen capture: YouTube/The Lakewood Scoop)

He gained a new understanding of young progressive Jews who turn away from Israel

Jan 16, 2017, 6:08 PM

A message for MLK Day: Resistance does matter

In synagogues around the world the following words were read this morning from the Book of Exodus (Exodus, chapter 1), “A new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.” There is a debate in the Talmud (Sota...

Nov 8, 2016, 7:50 AM

Choosing compassion on November 8th

Once upon a time, many families in this country ate meat by taking a chicken from the coop and slaughtering it themselves. Their eggs came from the same hens out back and their clothes were sewn by a family...

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About Me

Rabbi David Jaffe is the author of Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change which won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life. For more information about him or the book visit rabbidavidjaffe.com.