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Category Archives: Judaism
Am I A Chicken Swinger?
Chaim Amalek writes: "There is an article on kapporos in today’s NY Post and a few videos on the practice on youtube. Where do you stand on this practice – do you hold with RAMBAM, who declared it to be … Continue reading
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Don’t Insult Anyone
Rabbi Gil Student blogs: The Mishnah (Avos 4:3) quotes Ben Azzai as saying: Do not insult any man and do not dismiss anything, for there is no man who does not have his day and there is no thing that … Continue reading
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Judaism’s Universalist Side
Chaim Amalek writes: "In my many years of orthodox cheder (Noah, Amalek feels for you), I don’t recall even once being instructed on what it meant to be a "light unto the nations of the world". And I asked, too: "We are … Continue reading
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A Judaism That Isn’t Fear-Based Isn’t Judaism
Jennifer Bleyer writes in the Forward: “I’ve tried Buddhism, which I like very much,” said Gorn, a 35-year-old photographer, after the service. “But I wanted something that feels more like home. And I feel Jewish, but reading from the Torah … Continue reading
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Ten Reasons I Am A Jew
Dennis Prager writes in Moment (link from Rabbi Gil Student): The Jews are the Chosen People. Just as people need an instruction manual for a camera, they need an instruction manual on how to lead a good, holy and meaningful … Continue reading
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Cardinal Lustiger Would Say Kaddish For His Mother
From Haaretz.com: One day Rabbi Rene-Samuel Sirat was invited to attend a lecture on the Holocaust, held in the amphitheater of the Sorbonne University in Paris. The speaker, a member of the Academie Francaise, moved the audience when he spoke … Continue reading
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What Did Your Rabbi Talk About Shabbos Morning?
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Musician Craug Taubman Publishes Days Of Awe Book
One evening at Friday Night Live a couple of years ago, Craig Taubman walked past me. He stopped, came back, looked at me and said, "Are you the guy who writes that out-there stuff?" Guilty. From Craig’s press release: Released … Continue reading
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YULA Moving Left
It got rid of AGUDAH rabbis Becker and Landesman and hiring in the Modern Orthodox Zionist Mizrachi mold. More about YULA. How many children go to Rabbi Shalom Tendler‘s new school Mesivta Birkas Yitzchok? Rabbi Steven Weil is sending a … Continue reading
Pick One People, One Religion
Jack Werthheimer (provost of Jewish Theological Seminary) writes on Jewcy.com: Pick a single religion and a single people. It will save you much grief. I hope the religion you choose is Judaism and the people with a claim on you … Continue reading
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