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Barry Mellinger

Nov 10, 2026, 11:14 AM

Tikkun-Olam Fundamentalists

A few months ago I described the Guardian’s post-Judaism: a Judaism stripped of covenant, peoplehood, and Zion. In Britain, the Guardian upgrades Progressive Judaism because it needs a Judaism that fits its posture. That is the trade. In France,...

Nov 6, 2026, 12:13 PM

What Men Do with Grief (Chaye Sarah)

Sarah dies, and Abraham cries. That is where Parashat Chayei Sarah begins. Not with theology, not with a lesson about mortality, not even with Abraham trying to make meaning out of what has happened. His wife dies, and he...

Allen S. Maller

Nov 3, 2026, 4:16 PM

Rabbinic Examples of Wise Written Tahrif

As the generations and the centuries pass, some words change their meaning; or add new meanings to the old meanings which are sometimes even lost. So Rabbi Judah said: If one translates a verse literally one is a liar;...

Allen S. Maller

Nov 2, 2026, 12:17 AM

YHVH Energy for improving our own world

Islam has its 99 names of the one and only God. Judaism also has many different names (in the 70’s); but the YHWH: יהוה is not just a name; it is also a description of the one and only...

Nov 1, 2026, 5:27 AM

Movember Is About More Than a Mustache. It’s About Brotherhood

In Genesis 4:9, God asks Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" Cain responds, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" It is a question born of evasion and an unwillingness to accept responsibility for another human being....

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...

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