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Nov 24, 2015, 1:17 PM

Our heavenly voices: A response to Avrohom Gordimer

Along with Rabbis Gil Student and Steven Pruzansky, Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer has emerged as the leading critic of the trend to ordain women as Orthodox clergy. He has written extensively and repeatedly on the subject, attacking anything which smacks...

Aug 5, 2015, 7:43 AM

On the meaning of Jewish terror

I was at the zoo in Jacksonville, Florida when I learned that sixteen year-old Shira Banki, stabbed last week at the Jerusalem Pride Parade, had succumbed to her wounds. It is almost embarrassing to admit this, to admit that...

Jul 20, 2015, 9:29 PM

What scares me the most about the Iran deal

It is entirely fitting that the arms control agreement negotiated between Iran and the world’s Great Powers, was completed in Vienna, a city which immediately conjures up a faded European past of influence and consequence. When we think of...

May 12, 2014, 2:55 PM

The (well-justified) J Street exclusion

A scandal. A disgrace. An outrage. A violation of Jewish values. This is what we hear about the vote by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to deny membership to J Street, the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace”...

Feb 18, 2014, 3:24 PM

Pinter: First draft of a legacy, politics included

Harold Pinter died on December 24, 2008, a little more than five years ago. While half a decade on feels like an appropriate time to attempt a first draft of a legacy, it feels too early in his case...

Nov 13, 2013, 1:51 PM

Conservative Judaism may be failing but its ideas are not

Even as the movement is being eulogized, the liberal flank of Orthodoxy has picked up its banner

Aug 22, 2012, 1:56 PM

The coming one-state juggernaut

How can Israel disentangle itself from the Palestinians, and ensure its survival as a Jewish-democracy?

Jun 5, 2012, 7:54 AM

Shaul Magid and the collapse of Israel’s left

Instead of attacking the right and throwing up its hands, the left should focus its energies on articulating a new path forward

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About Me

Judah Skoff, one of the Jewish Week's 36 Under 36, is a lawyer and writer. He was a Berrie Leadership Fellow and a Fellow at The Samuel Bronfman Foundation. His plays have been performed in New York, London and at numerous theatres across the United States. His awards include the National Playwriting Competition, the New Jersey Playwright's Contest, and two Governor's Awards in the Arts. He graduated from Brown University and cum laude from Boston University School of Law where he was named Edward S. Hennessey Scholar and Paul J. Liacos Scholar. The views expressed are strictly his own.