Matthew Schultz is the author of the essay collection “What Came Before” (2020). He is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts.
As a hopeless phone addict who regularly scrolls through these moments I feel that something vital is being lost — that my life is less rich than it could be — than it used to be.
When you hear the boom, there is a split second where you wonder if this is it, if the structure around you will crumple up like a piece of notebook paper and the lights will go out suddenly and forever.
I ought to be desensitized by now, but Greta’s choice of words struck me, shocked me, filled me with rage, and very nearly pushed me to tears.
The people who have suffered the most from anti-Zionism are the Palestinians themselves.
The students who “occupied” the Butler Library demanded that the name “Butler” be removed from the building, calling him a fascist who “dined with Nazis.”
In his new book, Douglas Murray chronicles the rise in Jew-hatred from enemies who worship death, and explores how the Jewish value of choosing life can save civilization.
Even among Jews who do believe, there is a kind of reluctance to go all-in on God—a reticence when it comes to talking about God and a Maimonidean distrust of anything with the whiff of supernaturalism.
Is Bibi fighting for Israel? Or is Bibi fighting for Bibi? Only one man knows the truth.
Rabbis cannot treat God like an accessory to Judaism that can be attached, removed, and replaced at will.
In life, it is rare to find anyone as purely righteous as Mordechai or as purely wicked as Haman — though there are exceptions.