Why I still hate the Iran deal
The divisive debate over the Iran nuclear deal, which consumed so much of our energy last year, feels like a distant memory.
The divisive debate over the Iran nuclear deal, which consumed so much of our energy last year, feels like a distant memory.
For the past few months, whenever we’ve hosted guests at our Shabbat table, I’ve repeated different versions of the same joke: “I’d like to thank everyone at our table for not saying the name Donald Trump once during the last hour. What a miracle.”
Public relations is all about putting your best foot forward.
Of all the complicated issues running through American Jewish life, one of the most complicated is surely the relationship between Jews and African-Americans, which has frayed in recent years. A key question for both communities as we go forward is: How can we inject more love into the relationship?
My friend Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller is a nutty-professor type who is impossible to describe. One reason is that he has a mix of traits that don’t usually go together.
If you discriminate against the only Jewish country in the world, is that anti-Semitism?
It’s so comfortable to be right that we rarely ask ourselves whether we’re wrong.
You can’t knock on a tent, so I had to yell. I wanted to meet the people inside the tent and hear their story.
The longer I live in America, the more fascinated I become with the story of American Jewry — how a wandering and persecuted people discovered a free and open nation and have given so much back.
There are different kinds of fears. Some fears are specific — you can stumble into a dangerous neighborhood, receive a bad diagnosis from a doctor or get caught up in a legal battle. Remove the circumstance, and the fear goes away.