by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz In my life as a rabbi, it’s quite common for me to hear Jews passionately expressing their dissatisfaction with the latest portrayal of […]
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Hanukkah: ‘Light is always going to be associated with goodness’
He can do without this Zoom stuff, even if he has gotten pretty good at it. So go the Hanukkah thoughts these days of Rabbi Joe Hample, […]
Pandemic or no, the High Holidays are here
It’s Friday afternoon, and Rabbi Joe Hample is frazzled, and laughing, at the same time. He’s three days out from Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish […]
Democracy depends on the separation of church and state
Early last week, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the head of the World Values Network, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling pop singer Dua […]
Can you spot the anti-Semitic tropes?
by Manya Brachear Pashman Lexicographers have a long history of hindsight on the word “anti-Semitism.” When James Murray, the original editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, encountered […]
