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Mar 8, 2021, 11:27 PM

Why I Am Not Leaving The Jewish People

Avrum Burg a “scion of the Zionist aristocracy” recently announced that he no longer wanted to be a member of the Jewish community. I can sympathize. Reading the recent news out of Israel it is easy to think, “Why...

Feb 11, 2019, 9:35 PM

Our Lack of Mourning Is Horrifying

Some things are noticed in their absence, like birdsong, or traffic, or tears. On Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018, a baby died. The child, who was Israeli, was born prematurely after his mother was shot during a drive-by shooting in the...

Oct 22, 2018, 10:04 PM

Zionists! Israel Will Be Awful by 2050 and Uninhabitable by 2100

Amidst the welter of ever-worsening news about climate change which has been falling on us like acid rain of late, the recent report of the IPCC, which warned that we have 12 years left to act dramatically to limit...

Sep 26, 2018, 1:44 AM

Do We Simply No Longer Care About Genocide?

WARNING: Graphic content. When hundreds of thousands of women and girls fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh last year over field, marsh and river, many of them had difficulty walking due to torn, bleeding genitals, wounded in brutal gang rapes carried...

Mar 28, 2018, 1:52 AM

Is It Time For Jewish Media To Pay Attention To The Environment Yet?

I am often struck by the fact that the Jewish press doesn't cover ecological news much. We tend to cover anti-Semitism a lot (regardless of what certain NY Times op-ed writers hallucinate to the contrary), we cover Israel related...

Jan 27, 2018, 8:43 PM

Rabbi Sacks’ Aid of Pence Embodies a Communal Illness

News broke a few days ago that Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of Britain and popular speaker and author across the Jewish denominations, had collaborated with Mike Pence on his speech in the Knesset. To many people, including...

Aug 27, 2017, 11:08 PM

It’s Time to Boycott the Kotel

Can you imagine such a thing as a woman strip searched as she goes to pray for no other reason than that she goes to pray as a woman? Can you imagine? I don't have to, because it happened...

Jul 31, 2017, 11:00 PM

Does Judaism Have An Expiry Date? Best Before 2100

By 2100 AD much of the Middle East was close to uninhabitable. A temperature increase of almost 6 degrees over the preceding century had created deadly heat waves, drought, and ecological collapse. Much of the desert between Pakistan and...

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About Me

Matthew Gindin is a journalist and Jewish educator who writes regularly for the Forward and the Jewish Independent and has been published in the Canadian Jewish News, Religion Dispatches, and elsewhere. Formerly a Buddhist monk, Matthew focuses on contemplative and philosophical traditions across religious boundaries as well as social justice issues through a Jewish lens.