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Oct 20, 2026, 1:25 PM

Choose Life: The Moral Price of the Moon

Abraham Joshua Heschel. Photo: Peter1c / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0; modified from original || Background image licensed via Canva.

With the advent of Space exploration, rabbinic writers debated whether Jewish law permitted a person to leave planet Earth. Possibly the first voice to be heard on this question was that of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Lubavitch (1902-1994)....

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 15, 2026, 2:32 AM

Trustees of Sinai

What Conservative Judaism Taught Me About Stewardship The older I get, the more I find myself asking a question I did not spend much time thinking about when I was younger: What happens to the things we have been given...

Richard D. Gitlin

Oct 14, 2026, 4:44 AM

Tikkun Olam Begins at Home

I am not a rabbi or a scholar of Judaism. I am simply an American Jew who has watched with growing unease as Tikkun Olam, repairing the world, has become one of the defining ideas of Reform Judaism. There is...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 10, 2026, 1:39 AM

When the Heart Breaks

What Judaism Teaches Us About the Future We Thought We Had Heartbreak takes more than a person from our lives. It takes a future. There is the conversation you thought you would have next week, the journey you imagined taking together, the...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 7, 2026, 5:19 PM

Choosing To Be Chosen To Become Jewish

Christianity and Islam are religious communities. Judaism (Hebrews Genesis 14:13) however is more than just a religious community. The Hebrew Bible is filled with secular national Jewish history and political desire to make future Jews into ongoing independence and...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 6, 2026, 8:57 PM

The Judaism That Lives

How Halakhah Learns to Read a Changing World Beneath almost every Jewish question lies another, more difficult one: How do we live Torah in a world that keeps changing? We are about to ask that question in ways no previous generation...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 4, 2026, 6:10 PM

The Judaism That Lets Us Become

What We Inherit, What We Change, and What We Give Forward I have carried a question for most of my life, though I did not always know I was carrying it. What does it mean to inherit Judaism? For years, I believed...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 2, 2026, 8:31 AM

Islam’s 99 Names of Allah, and Judaism’s One Sacred Name of YHVH

Islam's 99 names of Allah, and Judaism's 70 sacred names of God share deep linguistic, historical, and spiritual connections. We have Shared Semitic Roots: Arabic and Hebrew are sister languages. Divine attributes in the Qur'an and the Hebrew Bible...

Sep 30, 2026, 12:21 AM

What Kind of Brotherhood Are We Offering Our Sons?

When I saw the story out of Wisconsin, I recognized the scene before I even finished reading it. Police responding to an anonymous tip at an Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house near the University of Wisconsin–Madison said they found roughly...

Michelle Philippon

Sep 25, 2026, 6:49 PM

What this former evangelical found in a Reform synagogue

After growing up in megachurches, I took a job at a Reform synagogue and discovered a very different way of thinking about God, sin, belonging — and myself

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