David-Seth Kirshner, at The Blogs

Oct 1, 2024, 6:30 PM

Who leisurely woke up on a Shabbat morning to pour coffee? And who was still in their bed? Who was dancing at the Nova Festival? And who was off in the corner talking with friends? Who woke to change a baby’s diaper? And who...

Sep 25, 2024, 6:47 AM

J Street’s “Champions” are Weakening Israel’s Security

Iron Dome Battery -
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I’ll never forget the first time I saw the miracle of Iron Dome in action. It was like a page out of a science fiction novel. I was with my family on the streets of Israel. We heard the sirens...

Apr 26, 2024, 7:12 PM

Going to College to Get Stupid

On the UCLA campus, an immigrant professor was proudly protesting “Zionism” and chanting against the State of Israel for allegedly committing genocide. The encamped students on the quad were buoyed to have professorial support joining their choir of “From the...

Apr 19, 2024, 7:46 PM

Investment Advice

I have never taken a Series 7 examination, nor do I understand the Stock Market well. Still, I have some investment advice for you: Go long on young Jewish leaders. Allow me to share why I am so bullish about...

Mar 12, 2024, 8:55 PM

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Books worth burning

Illustrative: An image of a girl smiling as 'heretics' are burned in a Palestinian textbook. (IMPACT-SE, via The Times of Israel)

Eradicating Hamas is not enough. We must stop allowing Palestinian children to be raised to hate Jews and to think Israel is their enemy

Nov 26, 2023, 7:29 AM

Streams of Anxious Consciousness 50

This will be my last Stream of Anxious Consciousness. At least for now. I am taking a pause after 50 days of chronicling the massacre against Israel on October the 7th and the aftermath of shock, trauma and anguish...

Nov 25, 2023, 10:54 PM

Streams of Anxious Consciousness 49

In 1987, on a sunny autumn afternoon in Midland, Texas, 18-month-old baby Jessica McClure was playing in the backyard of her aunt’s home, which was also a make-shift day care center. Suddenly, Jessica stepped in the wrong direction and...

Nov 24, 2023, 8:09 PM

Streams of Anxious Consciousness 48

Zhou Enlai, the first premiere of the Communist People’s Republic of China was in conversation with Henry Kissinger in the early 70s, discussing the impact of revolutions on world order. Kissinger asked Enlai “What effects did the French Revolution...

About Me

David-Seth Kirshner is the senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, a Conservative synagogue in Closter, New Jersey. He is the past President of the NY Board of Rabbis and the NJ Board of Rabbis and is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow at the Hartman Institute and serves on the Executive Committee of the JFNA. Rabbi Kirshner was appointed to the New Jersey/Israel Commission by Governors Christie and Murphy. Rabbi Kirshner is a National Council member of AIPAC and an adjunct faculty member at the Academy for Jewish Religion, (AJR). He is the author of Streams of Shattered Consciousness, featured in The NY Times Book Review (Feb '24) and has over 11,000 copies in circulation in its first three months since publication. He has spoken on his book and topics connected to Judaism and Zionism across the world.

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